Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre To Dim Lights For Tony-Winning Linda Lavin

Linda Lavin, the Broadway, TV and film star who died in December, will be honored by Broadway’s Shubert Organization with the traditional dimming of lights at the venue where Lavin gave her Tony-winning performance in 1986’s Broadway Bound.

The lights of the Broadhurst Theatre will dim on Tuesday, March 11 at 6:45 pm/ET in Lavin’s honor.

Perhaps best known for her long-running, nine-season role as Alice Hyatt on TV’s Alice, Lavin had a robust stage career, beginning with A Family Affair in 1962 and continuing to Our Mother’s Brief Affair in 2016. In all, she appeared in 17 Broadway productions, with some of her most notable performances being in It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s Superman, the 1966 musical that showcased Lavin’s showstopping performance of the song “You’ve Got Possibilities”; Neil Simon’s Broadway Bound (1986); Wendy Wasserstein’s The Sister Rosensweig (1993); and Nicky Silver’s The Lyons (2012).

Lavin, who died December 29, 2024 at the age of 87, earned six Tony nominations throughout her career.

Though Lavin also appeared in feature films, her career on the big screen was not as celebrated as either her stage or TV credits. She was not included in the Oscars In Memoriam segment Sunday night, to the consternation of fans expressing disappointment on social media.

Decisions regarding Broadway light dimmings are made by the Broadway Theatre Owners Committee, the group of theater owners that oversees the tributes. The so-called “partial” or “select” dimmings – occasionally controversial – were initiated in recent decades as a way of broadening the scope of honorees beyond the more obvious “superstar” deaths such as Stephen Sondheim or Chita Rivera or James Earl Jones who typically receive dimmings from all Broadway venues.