Friedrich St. Florian, an architect whose design for the World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington inspired criticism and controversy as well as...
Mel Shapiro, an award-winning theater director whose collaborations with the playwright John Guare included their critically acclaimed musical version of Shakespeare’s comedy “The Two Gentlemen of...
James Lee Williams, a drag performer and winner of the inaugural season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race UK” who was best known by the stage name The...
Richard Foreman, the relentlessly teasing, deliberately mysterious avant-garde playwright and impresario who founded the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, won a bookshelf full of Obie Awards and received a...
Tom Johnson, a composer and critic whose Village Voice columns documented the renaissance of avant-garde music in downtown New York during the 1970s, and whose own...
Jeff Baena, the director and screenwriter who co-wrote the dark comedy “I Heart Huckabees,” and who directed films including “Life After Beth” and “Horse Girl,” died...
Marie Winn, the author who chronicled the avian sensation Pale Male, a red-tailed hawk that took up residence on the overhang of an Upper East Side...
Charles Shyer, who co-wrote and directed a long string of hit comedies, including “Private Benjamin,” “Baby Boom” and “Father of the Bride” — many of which...
Britt Allcroft, a British producer, director and writer who adapted the antics of a cheerful, impetuous locomotive into a TV series, “Thomas & Friends,” that became...
Jocelyne Wildenstein, the Swiss-born socialite and former wife of Alec Wildenstein, the scion of an art-world dynasty, whose lavish lifestyle, bitter divorce and exotic cosmetic surgeries...
