Oscar, Tony-nominated writer-director Douglas McGrath dies

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Oscar, Tony-nominated writer-director Douglas McGrath dies
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The death was announced by the producers of McGrath’s solo off-Broadway show, “Everything’s Fine,” which opened last month.

A show representative said the cause was a heart attack. McGrath had written and was starring in “Everything’s Fine,” and was directed by John Lithgow.

McGrath began his writing career on the staff of “Saturday Night Live” and went on to pen the plays “Checkers,” “The Age of Innocence” and the musical “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” which ran on Broadway from 2013-2019. McGrath was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay of 1994′s “Bullets Over Broadway,” which he co-wrote with Allen. The screenplay was used as a basis for Allen’s 2014 Broadway stage adaptation.

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