
Richard Greenberg, Playwright Whose ‘Take Me Out’ Won a Tony, Dies at 67
More than 30 of his plays were produced on Broadway and off. Many of them dealt with the manners and mores of New York’s upper middle class.
More than 30 of his plays were produced on Broadway and off. Many of them dealt with the manners and mores of New York’s upper middle class.
A former “D” student from Norway, he made his mark at G.E.’s Research Lab in the U.S., in part by confirming a pivotal theory about superconductivity.
He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s helical structure.
También interpretó a un personaje mitad humano, mitad demonio en la serie “Hechiceras” y a un cirujano plástico mujeriego en la serie de FX “Nip/Tuck”.
Her stewardship of the troupe that bears his name became a model for other dance companies, like Martha Graham’s, after their founders died.
His work blended classic design with a loose ’60s-style energy, giving publications like Rolling Stone an identity that radiated with gravitas and personality.
He played the half-human, half-demon Cole Turner in the WB supernatural series “Charmed” and a self-destructive playboy in the FX series “Nip/Tuck.”
He was a mainstay at both the Metropolitan Opera and the Royal Opera House, winning acclaim for his full tenor range and a rich, unforced tone, notably singing Mozart.
He had built one of the country’s leading trauma centers in Washington, which made it possible for his team to respond quickly after the president was shot.
He staged a revival of “The Crucible” in a Manhattan hotel ballroom in 1958, helped run Circle in the Square and oversaw the operations of Jujamcyn Theaters.
She was a leading dancer for Merce Cunningham, a prolific choreographer and an admired teacher.
Despite the unspeakable horror of her youth, she embraced a school of psychotherapy that stresses empathy and the belief that everyone can change for the better.
He turned a tiny family business into a billion-dollar weight-loss empire by replacing calorie counting and forbidden foods with “just add milk.”
He set his frequently neurotic characters in bleak, morally ambiguous situations where laughter, as he put it, “is a measure of the sickness of society.”
Tenía el aire de un malo de Hollywood y parecía haber salido de un film noir de los años cuarenta. “Soy un poco un regreso a la época de las películas en blanco y negro”, dijo alguna vez.
He brought order and profits to Marvel in the 1980s and helped establish the genre as a popular-culture tent pole for decades to come.
Hailing from a small, rural province, Mr. Mabuza had a remarkable rise to national power. But much of it came crashing down amid corruption allegations.
On and off Broadway, he worked with rising talents like Kenneth Lonergan and Paula Vogel, combining complex storytelling with the simplest possible productions.
He had the air of a throwback actor, a timeless Hollywood heavy who seemed to have stepped out of a 1940s film noir.
For nearly 50 years, he was ubiquitous on British television — first as a reporter and then as an imperturbable presenter on Independent Television’s “News at Ten.”
She oversaw fashion coverage beginning in 1957, when hemlines made headlines. She later made groundbreaking ads for Henri Bendel with her photographer husband, Gösta Peterson.
A former basketball standout with no formal dance training, he came to provide moves for rappers like Bow Wow and dance-battle films like “You Got Served.”
His method of producing the drug Taxol, now used widely to treat various cancers, eliminated the need to source its active compound from endangered trees.
A center who skated alongside Gordie Howe on the team’s famed “Production Line,” he helped win three Stanley Cups and stood out for his clean play over 24 years in Detroit.
Working for six secretaries of state, he was known for explaining and defending U.S. foreign policy in a noncombative tone, without interjecting his own opinion.
A medical doctor and former nun, she found an affordable way to expand palliative care in the developing world, bringing pain relief to poor, terminally ill patients.
He wrote more than 130 books, mostly collections of poetry and translations of classics, as well as lowbrow novels under a pen name.
A member of the German collective Zero Group, he hammered thousands of nails — into columns, chairs, canvases — expressing the power of repetition to bring about complexity.
Despite resistance from the medical establishment, he found systemic ways to reduce errors, paving the way for a global standard. Thousands of lives have been saved.
A fire-and-brimstone preacher, he reached millions and made millions in a global enterprise before tumbling from grace over his encounters with a prostitute.
A daughter of privilege, she mixed social satire with murder in a series of addictive mysteries.
He earned purses of more than $300 million in a Hall of Fame career that revolutionized thoroughbred racing with a modern-day corporate approach.
Parker, a towering outfielder who helped propel the Pirates to the World Series in 1979, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame last year.
She founded Save a Fox Rescue to care for foxes that had been abandoned or bred for their pelts on fur farms. She gained millions of social media followers along the way.
His liberal politics, inspired by the safety nets of the New Deal, were shaped in working-class mining country.
A sack specialist, he led the American Football League in taking down quarterbacks in the 1968 regular season, which was capped by the Jets’ upset win in Super Bowl III.
He was best known for one enduring TV theme, but he had a startlingly diverse career as a composer, arranger and conductor in a wide range of genres.
Mx. Oh’s politically provocative and often playful works, including the Off Broadway production “{my lingerie play},” asserted the right to be oneself while having fun.
As a psychiatry resident, he became convinced of the benefits of ECT. But he spent years battling detractors and a misleading pop-culture depiction of the procedure.
A lawyer by day, he created Highlights in Jazz, bringing together artists both famous and unknown in more than 300 concerts over 50 years.
Critics compared her unnerving images to those of Diane Arbus, but praised her ability to infuse her subjects with warmth and humanity.
He helped bring crowds of music fans to a remote Tennessee cow farm with Bonnaroo, and to San Francisco with the Outside Lands festival.
He walked away from his family’s hugely successful ice cream business to crusade for a plant-based diet and against cruelty to animals.
As the affable deputy sheriff on the popular CBS show, Mr. Hurst became a beloved figure for many fans of the show.
After a deranged shooter killed her husband and wounded her son on a Long Island commuter train in 1993, she went to Congress on a mission to curb gun violence.
Before becoming known as an unusual breed of television correspondent and commentator, he had a long association with President Lyndon B. Johnson.
He represented the lofty as well as the low. His credits included the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest and the obligatory raincoat to keep a defendant’s cuffed hands covered in a “perp walk.”
Her 76 books included “Life as We Knew It,” a late-career best seller that told the story of a family in postapocalyptic Pennsylvania.
They helped advance the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning people through legislation, legal challenges or fiery advocacy.
Although many of his designs remain unbuilt — with a few exceptions, including King Charles’s Poundbury — he was a driving force in the New Urbanism movement.
Trying to move to Israel with his ballerina wife, he was harassed and jailed while becoming an international cause célèbre and a Cold War symbol of the plight of Soviet Jews.
He chased eclipses for five decades, wrote several books about them and worked with NASA to make data accessible to nonscientist sky gazers.
He championed works of cinema that were destined never to have a commercial breakthrough — which, to him, was the whole point.
Though best known for comedy, he also played serious roles, including a sinister sheriff in “Mississippi Burning.” The director Alan Rudolph cast him in nine films.
A guitarist and songwriter, he ditched glam rock at its peak and scored with meatier stadium-rock anthems like “Can’t Get Enough” and “Feel Like Making Love.”
A conceptual artist, she used photography to make surrealistic images and then went on to document Manhattan’s downtown scene and its mostly male provocateurs.
A former Broadway actress, she was a no-nonsense foil for the unruly Fred Sanford. She also warmed hearts with a recurring role on the “The Waltons.”
A Texas Republican, he gave up his seat after news broke that public funds had been used to settle the case, made by his former communications director.
First on TV and then on the pop charts, he became so popular so young, he once said, that he “didn’t really have time to have an ego.”
His bronze works — smooth-skinned orbs slashed to reveal complex cores — are in public places around the world, including outside the U.N. headquarters and in Vatican City.
Years after being catapulted to national fame in the U.S.S.R. as a child actor, he wrote about ideals of racial harmony and international solidarity.
His vision for how to ship packages overnight led to not just a new company, but also a new sector of the world economy and a now-familiar English verb.
Motivated by the helplessness of his boyhood, he described the lives of vulnerable people in conflicts around the world and later his own terminal illness.
An architect, he wrote in his book “Lost New York” about the many buildings that were destroyed before passage of the city’s landmarks preservation law.
The Food Network chef, who died Tuesday at 55, was remembered in a star-studded service that sent her off with a singalong.
A model who was crowned Miss Sweden in 1961, she became best known for commercials that one observer said “replaced the ‘hard sell’ with the ‘sex sell.’”
A late-1960s throwback to the days of clean-cut teen idols — he called himself “the missing link” — he rode his gymnastic vocal range to a string of hits.
He posed as a renegade mobster dealing drugs and laundering cash to help topple Nicky Barnes, who as “Mr. Untouchable” ran a formidable Harlem heroin ring.
She channeled her experiences — and frustrations — as a Los Angeles prosecutor into an award-winning career as a television writer and producer.
She was a blunt and bossy domestic dominatrix on the series “How Clean Is Your House?” honing a persona as the rudest woman on reality television.
A top general, he was appointed prime minister in 1992, a short-lived tenure that immediately incited the Black May uprising — and a violent backlash by his military.
His research unraveled mysteries about the solar system and the demise of the dinosaurs. In retirement, he turned his attention to the Holocaust.
Producing or directing, he made more than 50 films over 50 years, including a series on the English language and an exploration of J. Edgar Hoover’s secret life.
Working for a TV station in Oklahoma City, he was known for using high-tech tools to give early warnings of tornadoes in the central U.S.
An influential photography critic, she wrote essays, newspaper columns and books, including a notable biography of the photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White.
Born and raised in Louisiana, he investigated unresolved civil-rights-era killings in the Deep South. His reporting on one of those cases made him a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
His record label, Putumayo, gathered sounds from around the globe and pushed them into the mainstream, selling 35 million compilation CDs worldwide.
Su característico cabello rubio y su actitud confiada en la cocina la convirtieron en una de las chefs de comida italiana más reconocidas de Estados Unidos.
Tuvo un papel breve pero memorable en la exitosa película de Disney.
Mr. Bell’s first role in a feature film was providing comic relief in the Disney hit.
Her distinctive hairstyle and swagger in the kitchen made her one of America’s most recognizable Italian chefs.
With little formal training but full of ideas, he focused on the core classical composers, winning over audiences (though not every critic) worldwide.
He used biblical exegesis to argue that faith demands justice, calling on churches to challenge oppression and uplift society’s marginalized.
Overcoming male resistance, she became the first woman to enter the New York City Marathon and the first official female winner of the Boston event.
He served from 1984 to 1989, and sought to maintain checks and balances in city government to prevent against what he called “an imperial mayor.”
He was a prominent member of the Kamoinge Workshop, a collective that nurtured Black photographers at a time when they were marginalized by the mainstream.
He was a master of long form narratives, often involving high-stakes topics. He reported for Vanity Fair, The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine.
He was best known for his success in business, notably the international beauty company he built with his mother, Estée Lauder. But he was also an influential art patron.
She was a proponent of natural childbirth when she joined the group that produced the candid guide to women’s health. It became a cultural touchstone and a global best seller.
He notched a victory in a Supreme Court decision against the City of Chicago in 1976. He then spent over 40 years making sure the ruling was enforced.
His stick-figure sculptures conveyed a surprising depth of emotion, hinting at the threat of imbalance. He also produced more than 30 large-scale commissions.
En 1990 se convirtió en la primera mujer en dirigir un país centroamericano. Su presidencia llegó después de que la nación se viera sumida en luchas políticas.
The first woman to lead a Central American country, she served in the 1990s after the nation had been shaken by political strife.
Fluent in German and passing as an Aryan, she once crossed into Germany, uncovered Nazi military secrets and nursed a wounded, and deceived, SS officer.
As early as the 1970s, she demonstrated that mass media was fair game as artistic material, and that its power could be turned against itself.
A master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career was powered as much by experimentation as by reverence for tradition.
As an award-winning actor and director, he appeared in scores of stage plays, movies and TV shows over six decades, most often as unsavory characters.
A hit for Julie London in 1955, it was later recorded by — among many others — Ella Fitzgerald, Barbra Streisand and Michael Bublé, who praised it for its “darkness.”
Mr. Kapur, who died of a heart attack after playing in a polo match in England, was formerly married to the Bollywood star Karisma Kapoor.
A noted art collector as well as a designer, he brought a personal, history-minded approach to his work around Boston and on college campuses.
The group reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1987 with the ballad “Always” and went on to leave a lasting impression on modern-day artists.
She was a concert promoter, a nightclub impresario and the producer of an award-winning 1992 film about the Nicholas Brothers dance duo.
He was a school dropout at 14 and homeless for a spell, but as a driven investor he became a billionaire. Later came another quest: to extend life through better nutrition.
His band’s output ranged from the 1966 psychedelic hit “I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)” to what he called a “Catholic Mass done in rock veneer.”
She was ridiculed for drilling a hole in her skull to increase blood flow, but her foundation’s research into the therapeutic use of counterculture drugs proved visionary.
Discovered on the street in Rome, he had a brush with stardom when he was cast in what many consider one of the greatest films of all time.
She said last year that her breast cancer, which she was diagnosed with in 2019, had progressed to Stage 4.
A fashion photographer, he built a do-it-yourself life on 40 lonely acres in West Texas, living like a modern-day Thoreau and telling millions of his experience on a blog.
Brian Wilson, leader and chief songwriter of The Beach Boys, wrote several hits in the 1960s, a musical counterpart to the myth of Southern California as paradise.
Playing in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which inspired the film “A League of Their Own,” she won a batting title and stole 127 bases in 1944.
Creador de éxitos, músico prestigioso y un artista agobiado por la etiqueta de genio, Wilson trascendió el género surf para crear complejas armonías e intrincados paisajes sonoros en el estudio.
Using neon, searchlights — or even shadows — he dramatically shaped the look of prominent spaces in almost every corner of the world.
A hitmaker elevated and burdened by the label of genius, he transcended the breezy surf genre to create complex harmonies and intricate soundscapes in the studio.
A top Wall Street lawyer, he worked on some of the biggest corporate mergers in history, including KKR’s takeover of Nabisco in 1989. He also served in the Carter administration and in city government.
His site, Cryptome, was a precursor to WikiLeaks, and in some ways bolder in its no-holds-barred approach to exposing government secrets.
Her work in Brazil challenged the prevailing theory of when humans first arrived in the Americas and led to the development of a forgotten corner of the country.
Beginning with a reading by Dylan Thomas, she and a friend found unlikely commercial success in the 1950s with recordings of famous writers reciting their work.
Leading Sly and the Family Stone, he helped redefine the landscape of pop, funk and rock in the late 1960s and early ’70s.
He started studying tigers at a reserve in 1976 and became a leading activist in efforts to save the tiger from poaching and shrinking habitats.
He wrote best-sellers like “The Day of the Jackal” and “The Dogs of War,” often using material from his earlier life as a reporter and spy.
The toll of China’s epidemic is unclear. But dozens of obituaries of the country’s top academics show an enormous loss in just a few weeks.
A French nun, she lived through two world wars and the 1918 flu pandemic and, more than a century later, survived Covid-19. She enjoyed a bit of wine and chocolate daily.
She was budget director in Albany and “was one of the unsung heroes” in helping to shape the pandemic response as a deputy mayor under Bill de Blasio.
While no definitive statistics exist, doctors say Mr. Lewitinn, a retired Manhattan store owner, likely remained on the device longer than any other Covid patient.
The tanker spilled millions of gallons of oil when it ran aground, causing one of the nation’s worst environmental disasters. He accepted responsibility but was demonized.
A Russian-born painter, he created a mural of the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev smooching the East German leader Erich Honecker — and with it a tourist attraction.
His term in solitary was perhaps the longest in American history. He described how he kept his sanity, and dignity, in an acclaimed memoir.
His book “The Provincials” mixed memoir, travelogue and history to tell the story of a culture that many people never knew existed.
A self-described “simple country doctor,” he won national attention in 2020 when the White House embraced his hydroxychloroquine regimen.
Being fired as an advertising executive freed him to write a blistering memoir about his Southern family and an erotic novel that became a best seller.
He helped formalize the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, led his country until 1994, then became a vocal critic of his successor, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko.