Richard Greenberg, ‘Take Me Out’ Playwright, Dies at 67

Richard Greenberg, the Tony Award-winning author of “Take Me Out,” has died. He was 67 years outdated.

Greenberg’s loss of life was introduced on social media by collaborators and colleagues similar to Denis O’Hare and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who received Tonys for his or her work within the unique 2003 manufacturing of “Take Me Out” and its 2022 revival, in addition to director Robert Falls.

“For over 30 years, it’s been certainly one of life’s nice pleasures to know Wealthy and his writing. Dazzling, humane, wildly humorous,” Falls wrote. “He was additionally one of many smartest individuals I’ve ever met. However he wore that brilliance evenly—usually cloaked in hilarity, or tossed off within the driest, most devastating line at dinner. His kindness was actual. His loss is big.”

Greenberg’s performs had been identified for his or her wit and class, and coated a variety of matters, from a professional baseball workforce reacting to the presence of a homosexual participant within the locker room in “Take Me Out” to an Higher West Facet household grappling with the results of their unhealthy decisions in “The Assembled Events.” Greenberg’s work, which incorporates “Three Days of Rain,” “Our Mom’s Transient Affair” and “The American Plan,” was ceaselessly produced on and off Broadway, in addition to at prime regional theaters. He additionally wrote a disastrous 2013 adaptation of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” in addition to penned a well-received adaptation of August Strindberg’s “Dance of Loss of life” that introduced Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren to Broadway.

Along with profitable the Tony for greatest new play for “Take Me Out” in 2003, Greenberg was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for that present and for “Three Days of Rain.”

Falls wrote on social media that Greenberg was working with him on a brand new adaptation of Philip Barry’s “Vacation” that was alleged to premiere subsequent yr at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre.