NEW YORK - The marquees of Broadway theatres will be dimmed in honour of playwright Harold Pinter.
The Broadway League says the lights will be dimmed for about one minute at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
The British Nobel laureate died last Wednesday at the age of 78 after a long battle with cancer. He won the Tony Award for best play in 1967 for "The Homecoming" and the Nobel Prize in literature in 2005.
Pinter wrote 32 plays, one novel and 22 screenplays. His masterpieces include "The Birthday Party" and "Betrayal."
His writing featured dialogue with pregnant pauses that reflected his characters' emotional struggles and inspired the phrase "Pinter-esque dialogue."
