Playwright Dies Weeks Before First Show on Broadway Opens

British playwright Adam Brace has died, a London theater confirmed. “It is with deep sadness we announce that our much-loved friend, colleague and client Adam Brace died on Saturday 29th April,” Soho Theatre said in a statement Tuesday. “Adam was 43 and died after a short illness.

” His death comes mere weeks ahead of the, which opens at the Hudson Theater on June 26. The one-man production stars Brace’s longtime comedian friend Alex Edelman. “He was my closest collaborator for more than a decade, but more importantly, he was one of my closest friends,” Edelman tweeted Tuesday. “I don’t feel ready to acknowledge the magnitude of this loss, but I already feel it.”

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