William M. Hoffman
Died on April 29, 2017 at age 78
Mr. Hoffman’s epochal play “As Is” was in the vanguard of Broadway’s coming to grips with the AIDS epidemic. He also wrote a groundbreaking libretto for John Corigliano’s opera “The Ghosts of Versailles.”
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.