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Family, friends and fans filled Broadway’s Music Box Theatre on Tuesday afternoon to remember the prolific playwright A.R. Gurney, the Love Letters and Dining Room author who died June 13 at 86. Among those speaking and in some cases singing under the writer’s characteristically quizzical gaze were Sarah Jessica…

UPDATES with more information. A.R. Gurney, the playwright who in such comedies as The Dining Room, The Middle Ages and Sylvia chronicled the foibles and fantasies of the well-heeled American WASPS of which he was a quintessential exemplar, died Tuesday at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was…

Matthew Broderick plays Matthew Broderick and Annaleigh Ashford plays the dog he picks up in Central Park. They’re both pretty adorable in the Broadway premiere of A.R. Gurney’s Sylvia, given an engaging, if somewhat attenuated, staging by Daniel Sullivan. Ashford is especially endearing the title role, a poodle mix…

The line between homage and ripoff confronts and confounds artists all the time: “Good artists copy, great artists steal,” Picasso famously said (practicing what he preached). It’s true in journalism and academia as well; we appropriate the work and sometimes even the lives of others to bend to our own purposes. Inform…

The resurgence of interest in the work of playwright A.R. Gurney will continue in the fall with a revival of Sylvia starring competing Tony Award nominees Annaleigh Ashford (You Can’t Take It With You, Kinky Boots) and Julie White (Airline Highway). They’re two of the most gifted and in-demand comedians working…

Annie Baker’s The Flick won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama two years ago after an off-Broadway run at Playwrights Horizons, so it may seem too soon for a reappraisal. But few plays in my memory have so divided audiences and critics; the vaunted Pulitzer certainly was no guarantee of a commercial transfer. The play…

Following rapturous reviews for a Broadway revival and another one off-Broadway, A.R. Gurney is having a moment in the sun. It’s only taken the veteran playwright — whose The Dining Room and The Middle Ages are among the most widely produced works in the contemporary American canon — about four decades to become an…