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Death. Laurents died from complications of pneumonia at his home in Manhattan on May 5, 2011, aged 93. Following a long tradition, Broadway theatre lights were dimmed at 8 p.m. on May 6, 2011, for one minute in his memory. His ashes were buried alongside those of Tom Hatcher in a memorial bench in Quogue, Long Island, New York.
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.
May 6, 2011 · He was 93 years old, and died peacefully in his sleep. By Robert Simonson. May 06, 2011. Arthur Laurents Photo by Walter McBride. In recent weeks, Mr. Laurents had finished work on a new...
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...
May 6, 2011 · Arthur Laurents, a Tony Award-winning playwright and director who wrote the books for the classic Broadway musicals “West Side Story” and “Gypsy” and later wrote the hit movies “The Way We Were”...
May 6, 2011 · Pop Culture. 'West Side Story' playwright Arthur Laurents dies in NYC. Arthur Laurents, the director, playwright and screenwriter who wrote such enduring stage musicals as "West Side Story" and...
May 6, 2011 · Laurents, best known for writing the books for the landmark Broadway musicals Gypsy and West Side Story, died Thursday. Fresh Air remembers the writer and director with excerpts from a 1990...
