P.J. Barry, a playwright whose drama The Octette Bridge Club played on Broadway, died Sept. 2 in Los Angeles after a brief battle with cancer, his son, casting director Matthew Barry, announced. He was 88.
Barry's credits also included And Fat Freddy's Blues, staged at the O'Neill Theatre Center in Waterford, Connecticut; Heritage, about the women in Abraham Lincoln's life; and other works at the Hudson Guild Theater in New York, where he served as artistic director. He also ran the Fulton Theatre Company.
The Octette Bridge Club revolves around eight sisters of Irish ancestry who meet ...
Barry's credits also included And Fat Freddy's Blues, staged at the O'Neill Theatre Center in Waterford, Connecticut; Heritage, about the women in Abraham Lincoln's life; and other works at the Hudson Guild Theater in New York, where he served as artistic director. He also ran the Fulton Theatre Company.
The Octette Bridge Club revolves around eight sisters of Irish ancestry who meet ...
- 9/10/2019
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