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The award-winning British playwright Sir Peter Shaffer, best known for penning “Amadeus” and “Equus,” died Monday in County Cork, Ireland, of pneumonia and age-related issues, his long-time agent said ...

The obituaries for Peter Shaffer, who died earlier this month at the age of 90 and for whom Broadway is dimming its lights Thursday, were respectful but not effusive. The respect makes sense, since he ...

Playwright Peter Shaffer (1926-2016) chased the same idea for 30 years. A mild-mannered, rule-bound protagonist meets a ...

I first interviewed Peter Shaffer in 1990 when he was about to open his play “Lettice and Lovage,” starring a delightfully daffy Maggie Smith, on Broadway. I’d been a fan of Shaffer’s plays ever since ...

Why did a teenage boy who literally worships horses commit the unspeakable act of blinding six of them? That is the mystery psychiatrist Martin Dysart must unravel in order to help his disturbed young ...

LONDON British playwright Peter Shaffer, whose durable, award-winning hits included “Equus” and “Amadeus,” has died. He was 90. Shaffer’s agent, Rupert Lord, said the playwright died Monday while on a ...

Sir Peter Shaffer, the English playwright and screenwriter who scored an Oscar for Amadeus and a nomination for Equus, died today in a hospice in County Cork, Ireland. He was 90. Shaffer wrote at ...

Peter Shaffer, the Academy Award-winning British playwright whose stage dramas “Amadeus” and “Equus” were turned into acclaimed movies, has died. He was 90. Shaffer died early Monday at the Marymount ...

LONDON (AP) — Playwright Peter Shaffer, whose durable, award-winning hits included “Equus” and “Amadeus,” has died at the age of 90. Shaffer’s agent, Rupert Lord, says Shaffer died Monday while on a ...

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