Theatre
People remembered for their work in theatre. 45 people are remembered here. Light a candle, read their story, and add a memory of your own.
Indu Mitha1929 – 2026 · Bharatanatyam dancerShe kept Bharatanatyam alive in Pakistan, in Urdu, for nearly seventy years.
95 candles · 5 tributes
Phyllida Law1932 – 2026 · Actress (stageScottish actress of silken voice and sly wit, mother of two great actors, forever of the stage.
94 candles · 9 tributes
Yossi Pollak1945 – 2026 · ActorIsraeli stage giant of Habima and Cameri who brought fire to Lear, Othello and Nevalot.
93 candles · 9 tributes
Nina Popova1945 – 2026 · Actress (theatreSixty years on one Moscow stage, and Zhenya in the first Soviet television serial.
91 candles · 6 tributes
Slobodan Snajder1948 – 2026 · WriterWriter of Croatian Faust and The Brass Age who would not let history go quiet.
81 candles · 8 tributes
Roney Facchini1953 – 2026 · Actor in theatreFrom Rá-Tim-Bum's Luís to 30+ plays: a São Paulo actor of craft, humour and heart.
72 candles · 7 tributes
Bain Boehlke1939 – 2026 · ActorJungle Theater founder whose exacting Twin Cities stages and Fargo cameo left a lasting imprint.
70 candles · 8 tributes
Bonnie Greer1948 – 2026 · PlaywrightAmerican-British playwright and critic whose voice shaped UK cultural debate.
69 candles · 7 tributes
Manel Dueso1953 – 2026 · ActorCatalan stage free spirit who cofounded Sala Beckett and kept writing until the end.
60 candles · 8 tributes
Natalia Danilova1955 – 2026 · ActressRemembered as Varvara Sinichkina and a Komissarzhevskaya stage mainstay.
48 candles · 5 tributes
Griselda Gambaro1928 – 2026 · PlaywrightArgentine dramatist who made silence, cruelty and refusal the grammar of a nation's stage.
45 candles · 6 tributes
Grace Nortey1937 – 2026 · Actress (theatreMaame Gyata: five decades of fierce Ghanaian screen truth.
44 candles · 8 tributes
James "Gypsy" Haake1932 – 2026 · Drag entertainerBroadway gypsy, La Cage MC and Palm Springs cabaret elder who kept sequins and punchlines flying past 90.
32 candles · 5 tributes
Michael Kearns1950 – 2026 · ActorHollywood's first openly gay actor and an AIDS performer-warrior who turned his own truth into theatre and activism.
10 candles · 1 tributes
Arnaud Denis1983 – 2026 · ActorFrench actor-director who built companies, won Molières, and spoke to the end for injured patients.
10 candles · 1 tributes
Catherine Dasté1929 – 2026 · ActressPioneer of French theatre for young audiences, who made plays from children's own words.
10 candles · 1 tributes
Mikhail Lipskerov1939 – 2026 · ScreenwriterThe screenwriter behind The Littlest Gnome and The Wolf and the Calf, and a novelist at 68.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Marcelo Trepat1964 – 2026 · ActorFrom Drácula to Les Luthiers, Pergamino's song-and-dance man found his quiet stage in the Córdoba hills.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Niamh O'Brien (also known as Niamh Flatley)† 2026 · Irish dancerIrish dancer, Lord of the Dance's Saoirse, and a loving wife and mother.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Hope Clarke1941 – 2026 · ActressTony-nominated choreographer of Jelly's Last Jam who danced for Dunham and Ailey and directed Porgy and Bess.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Fedir Stryhun1939 – 2026 · ActorPeople's Artist of Ukraine who gave Lviv's Zankovetska Theatre more than half a century, and forever the Cossack Andriy of The Lost Letter.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Enchang Kaimo1948 – 2026 · Theater actress and directorRep pioneer and Trumpets co-founder whose spitfire energy lit the Philippine stage.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Oleg Shavarsky (Олег Шаварський)1946 – 2026 · ActorPeople's Artist of Ukraine who gave more than fifty years to the Franko Theatre and to generations of students.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Irina Kostrina1938 – 2026 · Theatre designerPuppet theatre artist who gave the Wolf, the Calf and the Smallest Gnome their faces.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Clara Joana1941 – 2026 · Actress (theatreBorn into a theatre family, she chose the stage and reached Portugal through its cinema and television.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Alan Mandell1927 – 2026 · StageBeckett's great interpreter, from the San Quentin yard in 1957 to the stages of Los Angeles, and the heart of its theater community.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Gabriel Prieto1961 – 2026 · Actor and drama teacherCo-founder of Teatro Aparte, beloved face of Chilean television, and teacher of generations of actors.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Przemysław Branny1970 – 2026 · ActorKraków Bagatela actor and Tu Es Petrus soloist whose voice and craft spanned stage and song.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Albert Rueprecht1929 – 2026 · Austrian stage and film actorVienna Publikumsliebling of Burgtheater, Josefstadt, and Heimatfilm, remembered at 97.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Louis Erlo1929 – 2026 · Opera stage directorFrom stagehand to director, he made the Opéra de Lyon new and kept Aix a home for operatic discovery.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Jiří Štěpnička1947 – 2026 · Actor and dubbing artist (National TheatreNational Theatre actor for half a century and the Czech voice of Harrison Ford.
5 candles · 1 tributes
Štěpánka Ranošová1926 – 2026 · TheatreOstrava actress who founded Bezruč Theatre and held a Thalia at 97.
5 candles · 1 tributes
Seela Sella1936 – 2026 · ActressFinnish stage and screen legend who made the theatre her home for eight decades.
5 candles · 1 tributes
Tom Stoppard1937 – 2025 · PlaywrightLook on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
5 candles · 1 tributes
Miloslav Kopečný1944 – 2026 · ActorMiloš Kopečný, Slepejš of Bony a klid and a stage actor of almost 190 roles, from Ústí to Palmovka and Dlouhá.
4 candles · 1 tributes
Illy Gorlizki (Ilie Gorlitzki)1935 – 2026 · ActorThe star of King Solomon and Shalmai the Shoemaker, who fought for every performer's due.
4 candles · 1 tributes
Savithri Sreedharan1944 – 2026 · Malayalam theatre and film actressKozhikode theatre's Umma, who brought Jameela to life in Sudani from Nigeria.
4 candles · 1 tributes
Ray Reinhardt1930 – 2026 · StageReinhardt, I say to you, become an actor. And for seven decades, he did.
4 candles · 1 tributes
Nils Eklund1927 – 2026 · Actor and voice actorSwedish character actor for seven decades: Dramaten stalwart, Pom-Pom in Svenska Sesam and the voice of Pettson.
4 candles · 1 tributes
Josh Grisetti1981 – 2026 · ActorThe class clown who could sing a little, and taught a generation how to make their own art.
4 candles · 1 tributes
Michelle DuBarry1931 – 2026 · Drag queen and ladies' shoe salesmanToronto's queen mother of drag, who showed up for every cause and always tipped the girls.
4 candles · 1 tributes
Dimitris Tsatsoulis1952 – 2026 · Theatre critic and scholarAthens theatre critic and Patras professor, a reader of the stage as a language of signs.
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Matthew Posey1958 – 2026 · ActorFounder of Ochre House and pioneer of the Suavant-Garde, who stepped back onstage five weeks after being shot.
3 candles · 1 tributes
Joan Plowright1929 – 2025 · Actress (stage and screen)Dame of stage and screen who helped shape Britain's National Theatre and won a Tony and Golden Globes.
3 candles · 1 tributes