EDWARD RUBIN, an iconoclastic theatre critic, arts critic and curator, who wrote for decades about theatre and the visual arts, died after a protracted battle with bladder cancer at Calvary Hospital on June 15, 2025. He was 84. Rubin, who went by the nickname “Fast Eddy” was a long-standing member of the New York Drama […]
Rebecca Luker, a much-praised Broadway actress and singer who earned three Tony Award nominations during her 30-year career, died on Wednesday, Dec. 23 in a Manhattan hospital. She was 59. Luker’s agent, Sarah Fargo, confirmed her death. The Broadway star announced in February that doctors diagnosed her with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as A.L.S. […]
Rebecca Luker, a three-time Tony Award nominated actress, whose crystal-clear soprano voice and stunning presence established her as a star in some of Broadway’s more noted musicals of the past three decades, died on December 23, 2020. She was 59. Luker, who had been cared for by her husband, fellow multiple Tony nominee Danny Burstein, […]
Ann Reinking, a Tony Award-winning choreographer who performed on Broadway for 30 years, making a name for herself particularly through her work in the musical Chicago, has died at age 71. Reinking died in her sleep in a hotel room near Seattle, while visiting her older brother, said her sister-in-law, Dahrla King. Authorities have not yet […]
The Tony and Drama Desk Award-nominated director and choreographer for the original Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat has died. Tony Tanner died on Sept. 8 in his Los Angeles home, Deadline reported. He was 88. Tanner’s website confirmed the theater artist’s death. Tanner succumbed to cancer, […]
Actress Dame Diana Rigg, a renowned English performer who played roles such as Emma Peel in The Avengers and Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones, has died at age 82. In addition to these roles, the late stage and screen actress (July 20, 1938-Sept. 10, 2020) portrayed James Bond’s wife in the 1969 film On […]
By AARON KRAUSE, Special to Theatrecriticism.com (SARASOTA, FL.) — Five-time Tony Award recipient Terrence McNally, the world-renowned playwright who also received the Tony Awards’ Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre honor last year, died March 24 in Sarasota. He was 81 . McNally succumbed to complications from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. He was […]
GLENN LONEY, a Renaissance man of arts journalism who interviewed hundreds of major artists of the 20th Century around the world and across genres, died April 16, at his home in New York City at age 89 after battling brain and lung cancer for a year. His lifetime as a critic and feature writer spanned […]