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Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorNed Eisenberg, a stage and screen actor who played defense attorney Roger Kressler on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and Detective Hauser in “Mare of Easttown,” has died. He was 65.His agents at Nicolosi & Co.

Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick were full of gratitude during the opening preview of their Broadway show, Neil Simon’s. On Saturday, the couple took the stage at the Hudson Theater before a sold-out crowd. During the curtain call, the 56-year-old actress gave a passionate thank you to the audience.

Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are taking a bow!

Carmel Dagan Staff WriterSally Kellerman, who was Oscar nominated for her supporting role as Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in Robert Altman’s “MASH” feature film, died Thursday in Woodland Hills, Calif. She was 84.Her publicist Alan Eichler confirmed her death.Among her other roles were a cameo in Altman’s “The Player,” a professor in Rodney Dangerfield’s “Back to School” and a Starfleet officer in the “Star Trek” episode, “Where No Man Has Gone Before.”The willowy blonde actress with the characteristically throaty voice appeared in two Altman films in 1970; the other was the more experimental “Brewster McCloud,” in which she starred with Bud Cort and Michael Murphy.

Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker will be joined in Broadway’s upcoming revival of Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite by Danny Bolero (In The Heights), Molly Ranson (Prayer for the French Republic) and, in his Broadway debut, Eric Wiegand, producers announced today.

Jon Stewart, the comedian, activist and former host of “The Daily Show,” will receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor from the Kennedy Center. Stewart will be recognized in a gala ceremony and performance April 24 that will be broadcast nationally.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterSarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick will return to Broadway next year.The upcoming revival of Neil Simon’s play “Plaza Suite,” in which the real-life couple will portray a series of dysfunctional duos, is scheduled to begin preview performances on Feb.

After a lengthy delay due to the pandemic shutdown, the Broadway revival of Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker has locked in a 2022 opening date. Plaza Suite will begin preview performances on Friday, February 25, 2022, with the official opening night set for Monday, March 28, 2022, at Hudson Theatre.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThe legendary Ann Roth is looking like a frontrunner for the costume design Oscar for her costumes for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”With over 130 film and television credits, Roth is set to make Oscar history beating out the late Christopher Plummer as the oldest nominee, should she land the nomination.Roth has worked with Meryl Streep, George C. Wolfe, Scott Rudin, Sidney Lumet, Neil Simon, Mike Nichols and Todd Black.

coronavirus pandemic.Broadway theaters abruptly closed on March 12, knocking out all shows, including 16 that were still scheduled to open. Late May is the earliest Broadway will reopen, according to the Broadway League.Some scheduled spring 2020 shows — like a musical about Michael Jackson and a revival of Neil Simon’s “Plaza Suite” starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker — pushed their productions to 2021.

GoFundMe page set up in her husband, John Hubbell's, honor says she died «very suddenly.» Royana landed a Broadway role in Neil Simon's at the age of 10. She also played the title role on the short-lived sitcom, in 1988.

GoFundMe page set up in her husband John Hubbell's honor says she died «very suddenly.» Royana landed a Broadway role in Neil Simon's at the age of 10. She also played the title role on the short-lived sitcom, in 1988.

Royana Black, who appeared on Broadway inBrighton Beach Memoirsand starred as the title character on the short-lived sitcomRaising Miranda, has died. She was 47.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticRoyana Black, an actress who made her Broadway debut at age 10 in Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs and, five years later, took the title role in the 1988 sitcom Raising Miranda, died July 14 in Los Angeles of acute myeloid leukemia. She was 47.Her death was announced by her family.

Sleeper and Neil Simon’s The Prisoner of Second Avenue.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticCarl Reiner, the comedian, writer and director whose contributions to the development of television comedy are rivaled by few others, died last night of natural causes at his home in Beverly Hills.

Bruce Jay Friedman, novelist and screenwriter who earned an Oscar nomination for the screenplay of the Tom Hanks film “Splash,” died Wednesday at the age of 90, his son told The New York Times. The cause of death is not yet known.

With Broadway now shut down until Labor Day due to the coronavirus pandemic, Neil Simon’s play “Plaza Suite” has been pushed back a year. The revival will now run from March 19, 2021, through July 18 at the Hudson Theatre, with David Byrne’s “American Utopia” returning to the theater this fall.

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Sarah Jessica Parker is remaining “optimistic” that her and husband Matthew Broderick’s play Plaza Suite will return to Broadway once the coronavirus pandemic calms down.

Claudette Nevins, who starred in the original production of Neil Simon's Plaza Suite on Broadway and in a national tour of The Great White Hope, has died. She was 82.

Sarah Jessica Parker is returning to Broadway! The former star will be joined by her husband, Matthew Broderick, in the first-ever New York revival of Neil Simon’s marriage comedy. And ET has your exclusive first look at the actors as three different pairs of couples visiting the famed Manhattan hotel.