He began acting in his native Canada circa 1980; his big break came with Kevin Costner’s Dances With Wolves, for which Greene was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. He went on to a busy career in television and film, including roles in Maverick, The Green Mile, Skins, and Reservation Dogs. - Variety
Rossiter was “a historian whose trilogy, Women Scientists in America, documented in sharp detail the ways women were excised from the annals of science.” - The New York Times
At the peak of her career, aged 50, she was effectively banned from the stages of Europe, following Russia’s full-scale illegal invasion of Ukraine. Three years on, as nightly Russian bombardments of Ukrainian cities continue, Netrebko is due to return to London to play Tosca at Covent Garden. - The Observer
He and his wife, the Bolshoi ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, were high culture’s power couple in the late Soviet era; his works were staples of the repertoire. After the USSR fell, interest in Shchedrin’s music soared in Russia and abroad, where it was championed by Mstislav Rostropovich and Lorin Maazel. - The New York Times
“At the height of folk revival, Hickerson began what became more than a quarter-century tenure at the Library of Congress in 1963, swiftly establishing himself as a knowledgeable guide to the sometimes-convoluted collections of recordings, documents and oral histories that were vital to performers, songwriters and historians of the genre.” - Billboard
With colleague Joan Woodbury, who died in 2023, she founded the state’s first contemporary troupe, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, in 1964 and developed it into a prominent ensemble. Though she relinquished the helm at the turn of the millennium, she remained a part-time employee for the rest of her life. - The Salt Lake Tribune
“For more than five decades at W.W. Norton, (he) waded into the so-called slush pile ... to discover unsung authors and to help fashion sometimes amorphous antecedents into sizzling, culturally significant potboilers” such as Liar’s Poker, The Big Short, Moneyball, The Perfect Storm, and Master and Commander. - The New York Times
Havergal, with his co-directors, the designer Philip Prowse and the playwright and translator Robert David MacDonald, ran the beautiful jewel of a Victorian theatre on the south side of the Clyde in the Gorbals from 1969 to 2003, the longest tenure in post of any British director. - The Guardian
Police officers found Carroll wounded in Southaven, Mississippi, immediately south of Memphis, at the offices of the merchandise company for a fellow comedian with whom Carroll had recently toured. Carroll died of his injuries at a Memphis hospital. One suspect has been arrested. - The Guardian
“Qualley is exhilaratingly unpredictable, a star who clearly cares more about the art she’s making than the fame it brings her. And maybe that’s because, when she’s working, she’s leaving it all on the floor.” - Salon
Rodriguez was an actor, playwright, and director for La MaMa, but then he "carved out a unique role in the avant-garde theater world by maintaining its vast archive of costumes, scripts, props and other ephemera, tracing more than 60 years of history.” - The New York Times
Doyle was “a multimedia artist who made poetic and beguiling pieces — exquisite animated work that explored ideas about civilization and evolution.” - The New York Times
“I’m obviously in no position to do anything other than say how sorry I am. But there is a small part of me that thinks: what about all the good deals? … The ambition is to get back to doing what I was doing. I was a great art dealer.” - The Guardian
A will that has been lost for more than 150 years and was at the centre of a bitter legal battle by William Shakespeare’s family over who owned the playwright’s final home has been unearthed in an unlabelled box at the National Archives. - The Guardian
