Meanwhile, respected actors Jack Klugman and Charles Durning are being honoured by the theatre community with the dimming of Broadway's lights.

BBC: Katie Holmes' play gets early Broadway exit

On Thursday, the marquees at all Broadway theatres were darkened for one minute at 20:00 EST in memory of Durning, who died on Monday aged 89.

BBC: Katie Holmes' play gets early Broadway exit

Durning amassed several important Broadway credits, including playing Big Daddy in a 1990 revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and opposite George C Scott in Inherit the Wind in 1996.

BBC: Katie Holmes' play gets early Broadway exit

They go to a lonely country house, inhabited by a pair of wealthy oddballs called Flower (Charles Durning) and Stone (Joel Grey), who trounce Pozzi at poker and then demand an unusual repayment: he and Nashe must build a stone wall in the grounds.

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