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Tony Tanner, 88 (1932 - 2020)
Tony Tanner was a British actor and director best known for choreographing and directing "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" in its 1982 Broadway debut. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Howell Binkley, 64 (2020)
Howell Binkley was a lighting designer who won Tony Awards for his work on "Jersey Boys" and "Hamilton." For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Nick Cordero, 41 (1978 - 2020)
Nick Cordero was an actor best known for starring roles in Broadway shows including "Waitress," "Rock of Ages," and "Bullets Over Broadway." For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Terrence McNally, 81 (1938 - 2020)
Terrence McNally was an acclaimed playwright who dramatized gay lives in Tony-winning plays and musicals including "Love! Valour! Compassion!" and "Kiss of the Spider Woman." For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Mart Crowley, 84 (2020)
Mart Crowley was the groundbreaking playwright whose 1968 play "The Boys in the Band" was one of the first to portray the lives of gay men on stage. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Laurel Griggs, 13 (2019)
Laurel Griggs was a rising star on Broadway who, at 13, had already appeared in more than 1,000 Broadway shows. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Jeff Fenholt, 68 (1950 - 2019)
Jeff Fenholt starred in the original Broadway production of "Jesus Christ Superstar," playing the title role. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Hal Prince, 91 (1928 - 2019)
Hal Prince was a legendary Broadway musical producer and director involved in many great musicals including "Phantom of the Opera." For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Carol Channing, 97 (1921 - 2019)
Carol Channing, the actress and singer known best for her Tony Award-winning performance in "Hello, Dolly!", died Tuesday, Jan. 15. She was 97. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click...
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Ntozake Shange, 70 (1948 - 2018)
Ntozake Shange was a pioneering black feminist poet and playwright who wrote "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf." For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com,...
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Neil Simon, 91 (1927 - 2018)
Neil Simon, one of the most popular and prolific playwrights and screenwriters of the second half of the 20th century, died Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018, of complications from pneumonia, according to his...
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Gillian Lynne, 92 (1926 - 2018)
LONDON (AP) — Choreographer Gillian Lynne, who worked closely for many years with composer Andrew Lloyd Webber on some of his most famous works, has died in London. She was 92. For full obituary...
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Patricia Morison, 103 (1915 - 2018)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Patricia Morison, who originated the role of an overemotional diva in the Broadway musical "Kiss Me, Kate," starred on stage opposite Yul Brynner in "The King and I" and appeared...
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Donald McKayle, 87 (1930 - 2018)
IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — Donald McKayle, a modern dancer and choreographer who brought the black experience in America to the Broadway stage in musicals such as "Raisin" and "Sophisticated Ladies,"...
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Harvey Schmidt, 88 (1929 - 2018)
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Schmidt, the composer of "The Fantasticks," which made its debut when Dwight D. Eisenhower was still president and became the longest running musical in history, has died. He...
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Michael Friedman, 41 (2017)
Michael Friedman, the composer and lyricist for the rock musical "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson," has died at the age of 41. Friedman died on Saturday, September 9, 2017, according to multiple news...
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Bernard Pomerance, 76 (2017)
Bernard Pomerance, the playwright best known for the Tony Award-winning play about a horribly deformed man that has lured some of Hollywood's biggest names, such as Bradley Cooper and John Hurt, has...
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Thomas Meehan, 88 (1929 - 2017)
Thomas Meehan, Tony Award-winning book writer of "Annie" and "The Producers," has died at the age of 88, according to multiple news sources. For full coverage and obituary from Legacy.com, click here.
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Barbara Cook, 89 (1927 - 2017)
Barbara Cook, a singer and actress who won a Tony Award for her role in the 1957 Broadway musical "The Music Man," died Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, according to multiple news sources. She was 89. For full...
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A.R. Gurney, 86 (1930 - 2017)
A.R. Gurney, a playwright known best for the plays "Love Letters" and "The Cocktail Hour," died Tuesday, June 13, 2017, according to multiple news sources. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy...
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Miriam Colon, 80 (1936 - 2017)
Miriam Colon, the Puerto Rican star of stage and screen who was featured in "Scarface," died of a lung infection Friday, March 3, 2017, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, according to The Associated Press....
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Alec McCowen, 91 (1925 - 2017)
Alec McCowen, a British actor who was a Broadway and West End star, died Monday, Feb. 6, 2017, according to multiple news sources. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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George S. Irving, 94 (2016)
George S. Irving, Tony Award–winning actor who played a role in "Irene" opposite Debbie Reynolds, has died at the age of 94, according to multiple news sources. For full obituary and coverage from...
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Dick Latessa, 87 (1929 - 2016)
Dick Latessa, an actor who won a Tony Award for best featured actor in a musical for "Hairspray," died Monday, Dec. 19, 2016, according to multiple news sources. For full obituary and coverage from...
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Fritz Weaver, 90 (1926 - 2016)
Fritz Weaver, a stage, film, and television actor whose credits include the TV miniseries "Holocaust," died Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016, in New York, New York, according to multiple news sources. For...
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Tammy Grimes, 82 (1934 - 2016)
Tammy Grimes, the actress who won a Tony Award for "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," died Oct. 30, 2016, according to The New York Times. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Howard Davies, 71 (1945 - 2016)
Howard Davies, an acclaimed British theatre director, died Oct. 25 after fighting cancer, according to his family. He was 71. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Dario Fo, 90 (1926 - 2016)
Italian playwright Dario Fo, whose biting political satire was recognized with 1997's Nobel Prize in literature, died Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click...
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Gordon Davidson, 83 (1933 - 2016)
Gordon Davidson, a theater and film director, died Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016, at his home in Los Angeles, according to multiple news sources. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Edward Albee, 88 (1928 - 2016)
Edward Albee, the acclaimed playwright who wrote "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "The Zoo Story," died Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, in Montauk, Long Island, according to multiple news sources. For...
