Douglas McGrath Has Died

[ElephantLoveMedley]

Posted: 11/4/22 at 1:17pm

He was only 64 and starring off-Broadway in his solo show. What horrible news.

https://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/news/writer-and-actor-douglas-mcgrath-dies-at-64_94518.html

[CoffeeBreak]

Posted: 11/4/22 at 3:34pm

This is shockingly sad.  His show was supposed to run into January - it was one of the best solo shows.  What a career - and early age to die.  RIP.  A huge loss.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Oscar-and-Tony-Award-Nominee-Douglas-McGrath-Passes-Away-at-64

For the theater, McGrath wrote Checkers, The Age of Innocence and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, for which he was nominated for the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. His films as writer-director included Emma, Nicholas Nickleby, Company Man (co-written and co-directed with Peter Askin) and Infamous. He was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay of Bullets Over Broadway, which he co-wrote with Woody Allen. He directed two documentaries for HBO, "His Way," about the legendary music promoter and movie producer Jerry Weintraub, and "Becoming Mike Nichols." Both were Emmy-nominated. As an actor, he appeared in the Oscar-nominated Quiz Show, The Insider and Michael Clayton, and seven films by Woody Allen: Celebrity, Sweet and Lowdown, Small Time Crooks, Hollywood Ending, Café Society, Crisis in Six Scenes and Rifkin's Festival. He wrote essays for The New Yorker, The New York Times and Vanity Fair and was a columnist at Air Mail. He began his career as a writer for "Saturday Night Live."

[BJR]

Posted: 11/4/22 at 5:28pm

Just saw this a couple weeks ago. So sad.

[BETTY22]

Posted: 11/4/22 at 6:53pm

Heartbreaking.

I met him several times and he was a true gentleman and a really theatre fan. 

RIP