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It was Laurents' first professional credit. The show's success led to him being hired to write scripts for various radio shows, among them Lux Radio Theater. Laurents' career was interrupted when he was drafted into the U.S. Army in the middle of World War II.
Jul 31, 2009 · The first show Laurents was ever taken to was in Brooklyn, where he grew up with his lawyer father and teacher mother. His mother was a socialist atheist, "but Jewish by Hitler's standards".
May 6, 2011 · Robbins, the director and choreographer of both musicals, conceived of “Gypsy” as a splashy “panorama of vaudeville and burlesque.” Mr. Laurents fought to place the figure of Rose, the stage...
May 6, 2011 · Arthur Laurents, the irascible, enduring Man of the Theatre who wrote plays and screenplays and enjoyed a significant career as a director — but who made his lasting mark as the...
In 2007, on the 50th anniversary of West Side Story, as plans were developing for a new Broadway revival of the musical, Arthur Laurents visited the New York Public Library for the Performing...
May 10, 2011 · Most of the major artists who revolutionized the American musical were composers and lyricists, but Mr. Laurents was the rare book writer who transformed the medium, starting with his titanic duo...
- Jason Zinoman
May 6, 2011 · An obituary on Friday about the playwright, screenwriter and director Arthur Laurents misstated the year he won the first of his three Tony Awards, for “Hallelujah, Baby!” It was 1968, not 1967.
