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Six-time Tony Award-winning costume designer CATHERINE ZUBER and legendary scenic designer TONY STRAIGES are among the 2017 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards recipients which were just announced by Theatre Development Fund (TDF), a not-for-profit service organization for the performing arts.

Actor Ben Gazzara has passed away due to pancreatic cancer, according to published reports. He was 81 years old.

Mako, who earned a Tony Award nomination for creating the role of the Reciter in the original production of Pacific Overtures and who was also an Academy Award nominee, has died at the age of 72