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- With a career spanning seven decades he received numerous accolades including two Tony Awards, and a Drama Desk Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and a Golden Globe Award.
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Arthur Laurents (July 14, 1917 – May 5, 2011) was an American playwright, theatre director, film producer and screenwriter. With a career spanning seven decades he received numerous accolades including two Tony Awards , a Drama Desk Award , and nominations for two Academy Awards , two BAFTA Awards , and a Golden Globe Award .
- Arthur Levine, July 14, 1917, New York City, U.S.
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- May 5, 2011 (aged 93), New York City, U.S.
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May 6, 2011 · It was Mr. Laurents’s notion to begin the show with an almost wordless sequence for the rival gangs — hardly what you’d expect from an established playwright with a solid ego. Robbins, the...
May 6, 2011 · Mr. Laurents was fairly well established as a playwright — having scored critical plaudits with his 1945 Broadway debut, Home of the Brave, and a popular success with the 1952 Shirley Booth...
The playwright and screenwriter Arthur Laurents wrote the books for two true classics of musical theatre, West Side Story (1957) and Gypsy (1959), and directed the hit musical La Cage aux...
- Tom Vallance
May 10, 2011 · HAROLD PRINCE, Director Everyone knows that Arthur Laurents was a playwright, screenwriter and wrote two of the best librettos in the history of American musicals. But do they know he was also...
- Jason Zinoman
May 7, 2011 · Entertainment & Arts. An appreciation: Arthur Laurents, prickly Broadway pioneer. By Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times Theater Critic. May 7, 2011 12 AM PT. As Stephen Sondheim is the first to...
May 6, 2011 · By Robert Berkvist. May 5, 2011. Arthur Laurents, the playwright, screenwriter and director who wrote and ultimately transformed two of Broadway’s landmark shows, “Gypsy” and “West Side ...