The second Tom Stoppard production of the season opened Oct. 30 when a revival of The Real Thing took its bow at the American Airlines Theatre. Along with Cynthia Nixon, who played the precocious teenager Debbie in the original 1984 production and now returns to play Debbie's mother, Charlotte, the cast features Josh Hamilton and Maggie Gyllenhaal and Ewan McGregor in their Main Stem debuts.

Every day, as Sondheim says,a little death. These past days, however, was particularly hard on the theatre community, with stalwart stage animals like Myra Carter and David Margulies making their final exit.

We say farewell to Edward Albee, James M. Nederlander, David Bowie many more, from onstage and behind the scenes.