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Arthur Laurents (July 14, 1917 – May 5, 2011) was an American playwright, theatre director, film producer and screenwriter. [2] 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.
May 6, 2011 · Arthur Laurents, the playwright, screenwriter and director who wrote and ultimately transformed two of Broadway’s landmark shows, “Gypsy” and “West Side Story,” and created one of Hollywood’s...
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...
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 8, 2011 · May 8, 2011. Of the four geniuses who created “West Side Story”—the other three being Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, and Stephen Sondheim—Arthur Laurents, who died last Thursday, was the...
- Hendrik Hertzberg
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...
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).
