Among the more poignant remembrances pouring onto social media comes from Casey Likes, the star of Broadway's Almost Famous and Back to the Future.

Gavin Creel, a Tony-winning theater actor known for his work in shows like "Hello, Dolly!" and "Hair," has died. He was 48. Creel died on Monday at his home in New York from metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma,

Mid-conversation with this reporter last year, the Tony Award-winning Broadway star Gavin Creel revealed a tattoo on his right wrist reading “Both.”This, he said, summed up his attitude to everything in life—things that can be wonderful and terrible,