Playwright William Gibson, whose The Miracle Worker won awards and thrilled audiences with its hopeful tale of the teaching of deaf and blind Helen Keller, died at age 94 this week in Massachusetts.
The play won three Tony awards, Broadway’s highest honor, for best play, best actress for Anne Bancroft and best director for Arthur Penn. A 1962 film adaptation, again with Penn directing, won Oscars for Bancroft as best actress and Patty Duke as supporting actress, while Penn and Gibson were both nominated.
Gibson earned another Tony nomination for the musical Golden Boy starring Sammy Davis Jr.
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