The ensemble of Rent, the composer of Floyd Collins, playwright Suzan-Lori Parks and Valley Song actress Lisa Gay Hamilton were among winners of the 41st annual Obit Awards May 20.

Playbill looks back at the actors, directors, choreographers, and other theatremakers who died in the past year.

The Coast of Utopia and Spring Awakening took top prizes — Best Play and Best Musical, respectively — at the 61st Annual 2007 Tony Awards June 10, honoring excellence on the Broadway stage in the 2006-07 season. Tom Stoppard's nine-hour drama won seven Tonys. Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik's show won eight, including Score, Book, Direction and more.

The Coast of Utopia and Spring Awakening took top prizes — Best Play and Best Musical, respectively — at the 61st Annual 2007 Tony Awards June 10, honoring excellence on the Broadway stage in the 2006-07 season. Tom Stoppard's nine-hour drama won seven Tonys. Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik's show won eight, including Score, Book, Direction and more.

In 2003, those we said goodbye to included a groundbreaking stage and screen actress known for living and working by her own rules; an illustrator who captured the vivaciousness of live theatre with strokes of his pen; a British actor who was among a new generation of players when Osborne and Pinter were coming into their own; a Tony Award winning playwright who loved the underdog; a librettist whose work on the page was so confident it seemed to sing without music; and a tap-dance wizard who acted, sang and danced into Broadway, film and TV.