Orson Bean, 91, familiar face on TV, nine-time veteran on Broadway, who recently played a cardinal in a local California production of Bad Habits. “My secret to longevity is gratitude. The longer I live, the more grateful I become.”

Eric Bentley,

Roger Berlind, 90, a producer or co-producer of 100 shows on Broadway who won 25 Tony Awards. He was a Wall Street executive who abruptly quit his job after his wife and three of his four children were killed in an airplane crash, then launched his career in the theater, where as a young man he had wanted to be a songwriter.

Kenneth Bernard, 90, a playwright and English professor who created experimental Off-Off Broadway, especially for Playhouse of the Ridiculous and LaMaMa

Salome Bey, 86, singer-songwriter, composer, and actor, veteran of Broadway, Obie-winner Off-Broadway, known as Canada’s First Lady of the Blues

Howell Binkley, 64, lighting designer for more than FIFTY Broadway shows over the last 25 years, Tony winner for Hamilton and Jersey Boys.

Actor Mark Blum, 69, .was familiar presence on the NY stage: nine-time Broadway veteran (Assembled Parties), 26 Off-Broadway plays (Rancho Viejo, Amy and the Orphans),teacher (HB Studio)

Patricia Bosworth, 86, biographer of Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Jane Fonda and Diane Arbus.”She gave up acting for the writing life, turning her knowledge of the theater into a series of biographies and mining her own extraordinary life for a pair of powerful memoirs….She was admitted to the Actors Studio in its glory days, learning method acting alongside Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe. She won some important roles onstage and appeared alongside Audrey Hepburn on film. But she always wanted to write.”

René Buch, 94, lawyer, journalist, editor, painter…and theater maker — co-founder and artistic director of Repertorio Espanol. Director Jose Zayas: “René carved a path where there was none.

Zev Buffman, 89, producer of 29 Broadway shows

Thomas Jefferson Byrd, 70, a favored Spike Lee screen actor who was also nominated for a Tony in his Broadway debut in the 2003 revival of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” starring Whoopi Goldberg. Atlanta police found him today shot to death.

Zoe Caldwell, 86, 12-time Broadway veteran, four-time Tony winner (pictured in Master Class). She acted on screens, but her life was theater, because “The business of acting is sharing…”

Lewis John Carlino, 88, screenwriter and playwright who earned an Oscar nomination for “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden” and who both adapted and directed “The Great Santini.”

Steve Carter, 90, one of many playwrights to emerge from the renowned Negro Ensemble Company in New York City, wrote dramas and satires about the Black and Caribbean-American experiences.

Brent Carver, 68, Tony winning actor for Kiss of the Spider-woman, Tony nominee for Parade, also in Romeo and Juliet, and King Lear on Broadway. “It’s all about the three big C’s… There’s confidence, which can always be fleeting, and then there’s courage and compassion.”

Marge Champion, 101, dancer, actor, choreographer, real-life model for Walt Disney’s Snow White and famous dance partner (and wife) of Gower Champion (They divorced in 1973. He became a celebrated Broadway director, and died in 1980.). She appeared in the Broadway revival of Follies in 2001 at age 81.

Anthony Chisholm, 77, Tony nominated Broadway veteran of four plays by August Wilson.

Lawrence Clayton, 64, seven-time Broadway veteran performer who made his Broadway debut in Dreamgirls and most recently starred in the 2015 revival of The Color Purple

Lynn Cohen 86, well-known actress on screens large (Golda Meir in Munich) and small (Magda in Sex and the City) but a long-time fixture in New York theater, as both performer (primarily Off-Broadway for four decades) and theatergoer.

Kevin Conway, 77, memorable turns in the 1970s in the plays “When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder?” and “The Elephant Man,”

Nick Cordero, 41, a Broadway musical theater actor (Waitress, A Bronx Tale, Rock of Ages, Tony nominee for Bullets Over Broadway) whose months-long struggle with COVID-19 was chronicled in painful detail on social media by his wife Amanda Kloots, also a Broadway veteran. He left a one-year-old son named Elvis

Stanley Crouch, 74, pugilistic intellectual and cultural critic on music (especially jazz), politics, race and literature, one-time playwright, actor, drummer and also college professor; one of his students was playwright George C. Wolfe

Mart Crowley, 84, pioneering playwright of The Boys in the Band, which had a triumphant Broadway debut on its 50th anniversary in 2018.

Faith Dane, 96, who “starred for many years in a stage show that spanned burlesque, jazz, dance, calypso, comedy and performance art. She hit it big in the Broadway and film productions of “Gypsy,” for which the lyricist Stephen Sondheim created a role based on her long-standing cabaret act. She went on to run for mayor of D.C. nine times

Olivia de Havilland,

Brian Dennehy, 81, a versatile performer on stage and stage, winning Tony Awards for “Death of a Salesman” in 1999 and “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” in 2003.

Kirk Douglas,

Ja’net DuBois (age unknown), best known in her role as mother of Janet Jackson’s character in TV series Good Times. & composer of the Jefferson’s theme song “Movin’ on Up.” As Jeanette DuBois, she also performed on Broadway, including in the 1964 musical Golden Boy.

Maurice Edwards, 97, whose long and varied résumé included directing operas and stage plays, acting in numerous Off Broadway productions and a few on Broadway, helping to found experimental theater troupes, and managing the Brooklyn Philharmonic.

Rhonda Fleming, 97, known for her movie roles, made her Broadway debut in Clare Boothe Luce’s ‘The Women’ and toured as Madame Dubonnet in ‘The Boyfriend.’ In 1957, Fleming made her stage musical debut in Las Vegas at the opening of the Tropicana Hotel’s showroom.”

Gerald Freedman, 92, renowned director, artistic director, and educator whose students included Robin Williams and Mandy Patinkin, was a 21-time Broadway veteran, beginning as a directorial assistant to Jerome Robbins on the original Broadway production of “West Side Story.” Among the dozens of shows he directed Off Broadway was the original production of the musical “Hair” at the Public Theater. He went on to become for 21 years the dean of the School of Drama at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, which named its theater after him.

Bernard Gersten, 97, successful longtime theater executive first at The Public Theater (where he persuaded Joseph Papp to produce “A Chorus Line”) then at Lincoln Center Theater. Theater has four elements: a building, artists, money and an audience. “How you mix them, how you adjust them, how you administer them is the secret of success or failure.”

Billy Goldenberg, 84, a busy Hollywood composer, who was also an eight-time Broadway veteran.

Wynn Handman, 97, co-founder of the American Place Theatre, and revered acting teacher.

Ronald Harwood, 85, a Tony-nominated playwright of The Dresser and Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Pianist

Ian Holm, 88, Shakespearean actor best-known for portraying Bilbo Baggins in Lord of the Rings. He appeared on Broadway in Pinter’s The Homecoming in 1967.

Israel Horovitz, 81, prolific playwright best known for the long-running “Line” and “The Indian Wants the Bronx,” (not as well known as the father of Beastie Boys’ Adam Horovitz)

Roger Horchow, 91, mail-order magnate who became a six-time Broadway producer, winning the Tony for “Crazy for You” and “Kiss Me Kate”

Peter Hunt, 81, Broadway lighting designer and director, winner of the Tony Award for directing “1776”

Louis Johnson, 90, genre-crossing dancer and choreographer, whose career spanned Broadway (“Damn Yankees”), film (“The Wiz”), opera (“Aida”) and the stages of the Alvin Ailey and Dance Theater of Harlem companies.

Patti Karr, 88, actress, dancer and singer in 23 Broadway shows from 1953 to 1994, as well as Off-Broadway, regional/stock productions throughout the country, film and television

Lynn Kellogg, 77, who starred as Sheila in the original Broadway production of ‘Hair’

Paula Kelly, 76, movie and TV actress, an four-time Broadway veteran who made her Broadway debut as Mrs. Veloz in the 1964 musical Something More!, alongside Barbara Cook.

Shirley Knight, 83, star of stage & screen, 5x Broadway veteran, best-known for Oscar-nominated roles in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and Sweet Bird of Youth

Larry Kramer, 84, who wrote “The Normal Heart” and founded GMHC (the Gay Mens Health Crisis) and ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power)

Herbert Kretzmer, 95 a theater critic, and lyricist for Les Miserables

Gerald Krone, 86, a founder of Negro Ensemble Company

Peter Larkin, 93, designed sets for 45 Broadway productions (for which he won four Tonys) and worked as production designer on more than two dozen movies

Ming Cho Lee, 90, the dean of American theater set design, a long-time professor at the Yale School of Drama, a veteran of more than two dozen Broadway shows, as well as opera, dance and regional theater.

Margo Lion, 75, Independent producer. Lion was the main producer for Hairspray and Jelly’s Last Jam, and she also played a major role in bringing Angels in America to Broadway.

Rebecca Luker, 59, go-to Broadway performer for three decades ( “Show Boat,” “The Sound of Music” “The Music Man,”….”Fun Home.) wife of Danny Burstein, a COVID survivor.

Playwright Terrence McNally, 81, wrote 36 plays and 10 musicals, Theatre changes the heart, then it changes the mind, and that makes people get off their asses and do something. I’m a great believer in theatre as a socially-active force.

Armelia McQueen, 68, Broadway veteran of Ain’t Misbehavin’

Julia Miles, 90, founded the Women’s Project Theater in 1978, to address the conspicuous underrepresentation of women artists working in the American theater. She also founded the League of Professional Theatre Women.

Doreen Montalvo, 56, three-time Broadway veteran. Doreen Montalvo was the first actress to audition for In The Heights in the basement of the Drama Book Shop in 2002…and embedded herself in my heart in an instant,’ said Lin-Manuel Miranda

Claudette Nevins, 82, TV regular, four-time Broadway veteran (Plaza Suite) and on tour (The Great White Hope)

Edith O’Hara, 103, founder of the strange and eclectic 13th Street Repertory Company

Tommy Rall, 90, actor and dancer who brought Broadway skills to Hollywood films including Kiss Me Kate, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Funny Girl and Pennies From Heaven

Carl Reiner, 98, comedian, creator of Dick Van Dyke Show, Broadway veteran, starting in the 1940s.His roman a clef “Enter Laughing,” about growing up in the Bronx wanting to be an actor, was turned into a Broadway play, and then a more successful musical. “The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.”

Ann Reinking, 71, Tony-winning choreographer, dancer, actor, Broadway veteran, Bob Fosse’s muse and lover

Diana Rigg, 82, memorable for her performances on Broadway (Medea, My Fair Lady), TV (The Avengers, Game of Thrones) and for her witty book of bad reviews through the ages, “No Turn Unstoned” “The older you get, I have to say, the funnier you find life. That’s the only way to go. If you get serious about yourself as you get old, you are pathetic.”

David Rosenberg, 90, director and theater critic

Murray Schisgal, 93, Tony-nominated playwright (“Luv”) and screenwriter (“Tootsie”) with a comic touch.

Adam Schlesinger, 52, known for his work with his band Fountains of Wayne and on the TV show “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” he was also a 2-time Broadway veteran (comical co-songwriter of Cry Baby and Act of God)

David Schramm, 73, Broadway veteran and founding member of The Acting Company best known for playing Roy Biggs in the television series Wings

Phyllis Somerville, 76, veteran actress of film, TV, Broadway and Off-Broadway.

Jerry Stiller, 92,known as one-half the comedy duo Stiller & Meara, father of Ben Stiller, familiar face on screen (Seinfeld), and also a classically trained actor and long-time Broadway veteran who performed on the Great White Way in 15 shows from 1954 to 1997.

Tony Tanner, 88, Tony-nominated director and choreographer

Bill Timms, 62, talent agent

William Wolf, 94, theater critic who wrote reviews and columns for Cue and New York magazines and taught at NYU.He was a past president of the Drama Desk.