'La Mancha' Playwright Dale Wasserman Dead at 94

Variety has reported the sad news that playwright Dale Wasserman, best known for "Man of La Mancha" and the stage version of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has died of heart failure in Arizona. He was 94 years old.

Wasserman, a private man received many awards and honorary degrees during his celebrated creative life including Tony, New York Drama Critics Circle and Emmy awards, he wrote nearly 80 plays, all of which fill nine boxes in the Billy Rose Collection at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts. He also penned magazine articles and a book, "The Impossible Musical" details Variety in the announcing his passing.

Variety informed that Wasserman married his "beloved friend," Martha Nelly Garza in 1984. His previous marriage, to actress Ramsay Ames, ended in divorce.