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An experimental theater veteran, he collected the ephemera of his friends and colleagues. As they began to die, he made shrines honoring them.
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He documented the punk and post-punk music scene in the East Village, leading an independent film movement that was proudly unprofessional.
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A playwright and screenwriter, she adapted a book about domestic abuse for NBC, bringing a taboo subject into the national conversation.
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She was an aspiring actor when she was cast in an Andy Warhol film called "Tub Girls." But she was best known for the beloved Off Center Theater.
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She wrote memorably about her upbringing by a circle of maternal elders and the life lessons they imparted, and of her yearning for the mother she lost.
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He appeared memorably in "American Buffalo" and in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Glengarry Glen Ross," but gave up a career on Broadway for one in Chicago.
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In New York and later in Los Angeles, he challenged notions of what dance is and isn't with choreography built around stripped-down movement.
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Of South Asian descent, he was discriminated against as "colored" in South Africa, but he flourished in London as a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet.
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He played a prankster and adoring father in "Toni Erdmann," the Oscar-nominated 2016 comedy that made him an international star, but he had long been a celebrity at home.
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He got his start at Caffe Cino, the birthplace of Off Off Broadway. His first of many, many plays, performed there in 1964, is a milestone of gay theater.
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Like other vulnerable landmarks across the city, the house at 14 Gay Street " which helped inspire the musical "Wonderful Town" " is being demolished.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:02PM[SHARE]Like other vulnerable landmarks across the city, the house at 14 Gay Street " which helped inspire the musical "Wonderful Town" " is being demolished.
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Inspired by double Dutch jump rope moves she saw growing up in Brooklyn, she developed an influential dance technique based on archetypes found in African art.
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Mr. York, a former child prodigy who was raised on jazz and choral music, wrote scores that matched Mr. Taylor's eclectic choreography.
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In 1941 she studied at George Balanchine's fledgling dance academy. She was not destined to be a ballerina, but she dedicated her life to Balanchine's legacy.
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