(ANSA) - ROME, APRIL 03 - Arthur Kopit, theater author, Pulitzer nominee for the Broadway play 'Indians' (1969), adapted for Paul Newman's film 'Buffalo Bill and the Indians', has died.
He was 83 years old.
His death was announced by spokesman Rick Miramontez.
No cause of death was revealed.
Kopit's seven-decade theatrical career began when he was still a Harvard undergraduate, with his 1963 comedy Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in theCloset and I'm Feelin 'So Sad getting an OffBroadway production that later became moved to Broadway with JeromeRobbins directing. He received a second Pulitzer nomination for Wings in 1978, another Broadway production that earned star Constance Cummings a Tony Award and then moved to 1983 for television. In his long and appreciated career in the 2000s the success of Nine, the musical in the limelight of Broadway in 2003 with Antonio Banderas winner of two Tony Awards. Rob Marshall's film with an all-star cast Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Sophia Loren, Kate Hudson - was based on his work. He was born in New York on May 10, 1937 and died in his hometown. (HANDLE).