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Alison Lurie, prize winning novelist, dead at 94
NEW YORK โ Alison Lurie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose satirical and cerebral tales of love and academia included the marital saga โThe War Between the Tatesโ and the comedy of Americans abroad โForeign Affairs,โ died Thursday at age 94. Lurie, a professor emerita at Cornell University, died of natural causes, according to her husband and partner, Edward Hower. โBefore he met Rosemary, Fred didnโt really exist for anyone here except a few other academic ghosts,โ Lurie wrote. โThe War Between the Tatesโ became a 1977 TV production featuring Elizabeth Ashley and Richard Crenna. โThe day on which Emily Stockwell Turner fell out of love with her husband,โ Lurie wrote in the bookโs opening sentence, โbegan much like other days.โ
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Online fall Broadway play revivals attract starry casts
NEW YORK โ Broadway theaters may be dark, but there will be plenty of new online productions of some of classic plays this fall with some starry self-isolating actors, including Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, Patti LuPone, Laura Linney and David Alan Grier. Producer Jeffrey Richards on Wednesday unveiled a weekly play run of livestreamed works to benefit The Actors Fund. They will stream on Broadwayโs Best Shows and ticket buyers can access the events through TodayTix starting at $5. David Mametโs โRace" is up on Oct. 29, starring David Alan Grier and Ed OโNeill. Mametโs โBoston Marriageโ is slated for Nov. 12 with Patti LuPone and Rebecca Pidgeon.