Key Highlights
- He was 87.
- His death was reported by his wife, Marsha Coburn, to The New York Times.
- The Gin Game is a comedy-drama in which two elderly residents of a retirement home – one male, one female – start an acquaintance over hands of the title card game.
- The long, in-depth chats – and bickering – uncover life stories and disappointments, and display the same competitive spirit the duo brings to the card table.
- Related Stories Obituaries 2025 Deaths Photo Gallery: Hollywood & Media Obituaries Obituaries Cisco Henson Dies: Nacelle Company’s Longtime President Of Production Was 61 After several regional productions in 1976 and 1977, the play opened at Broadway‘s John Golden Theatre in October 1977 in an acclaimed Mike Nichols-directed production starring real-life husband and wife Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy (she won a Tony Award for the performance) The popular play was revived on Broadway in 1997 with Charles Durning and Julie Harris and again in 2015 with James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson.
