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  2. 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.

  3. 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 librettist to ...

  4. May 6, 2011 · Mr. Laurents was a playwright, screenwriter and director who wrote and ultimately transformed two of Broadway’s landmark shows, “Gypsy” and “West Side Story.”

  5. www.bafta.org › heritage › in-memory-ofArthur Laurents | BAFTA

    Arthur Laurents. Screenwriter. 14 July 1914 to 4 May 2011. A successful librettist, playwright and director on Broadway, Laurents saw his greatest stage successes hit the screen with West Side Story (1961) and Gypsy (1962).

  6. May 6, 2011 · Arthur Laurents, writer of such classic stage musicals as West Side Story and Gypsy, has died in New York aged 93. The director and screenwriter died at his Manhattan home from complications of ...

  7. 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 Folles ...

  8. Jul 31, 2009 · Looked at in aggregate, Laurents's life has an improbable Forrest Gump air of having encompassed great swaths of history and the famous figures within it. As a young soldier in the second world ...

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