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Mr. Arden, a major British playwright of the 1950s and 1960s, produced work that was politically engaged, theatrically inventive and conscience-provoking.
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Mr. Grosbard's work was divided evenly between the theater and the movies, and though his career stretched across nearly half a century, he was highly selective in his projects.
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Mr. Murrin, a playwright and avant-garde impresario who became known as the Alien Comic, was apt to put on performances almost anywhere.
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Mr. Williamson was a Scottish-born actor whose large, renegade talent made him a controversial Hamlet, an eccentric Macbeth, an angry, high-strung Vanya and, on the screen, a cocaine-sniffin…
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Mr. Duell's understated comic flare enlivened Broadway shows ("A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"), television series ("Police Squad!) and Hollywood films (One Flew Over the Cuc…
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Mr. Deiber was an actor and director with the Comédie-Française for nearly three decades who brought his dramatic expertise to a second career as an opera director.
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Ms. Delaney, whose play "A Taste of Honey" found success in the West End and on Broadway, was just 19 when the work was first performed.
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Ms. Cohn, a theater scholar and drama professor, became the playwright Samuel Beckett's friend as well as a leading authority on his work.
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The Romanian-born Mr. Ciulei was best known in the United States for leading the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and for productions at Arena Stage in Washington.
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Mr. Rose, the producer of shows like "A Raisin in the Sun" and "Purlie Victorious," advanced the cause of black playwrights and actors and helped widen the scope of American theater.
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Ms. Stenborg's myriad roles on Broadway ranged from the loopy Sarita Myrtle in Noël Coward's "Waiting in the Wings" to Rebecca Nurse in "The Crucible."
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Ms. Stoddard, after a long career onstage and in television roles, brought the works of Noël Coward, James Thurber and Harold Pinter to Broadway.
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Mr. Linney roved along many intellectual paths, refashioning classical works for modern times and adapting contemporary novels for the stage.
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