Arthur Laurents, whose fabled Broadway career as a writer and director began with two short lived productions but who eventually wrote the book for such monumental successes as Gypsy and West Side Story died May 5th of complications from pneumonia. He was ninety-three. Arthur Laurents Laurents, born Arthur Levine on July 17, 1917, was a Brooklyn [...]
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:18AM on May 9, 2011