Overview

• Director Robert Falls confirmed Greenberg’s death on July 5 and lamented losing a longtime collaborator mid-process on the Holiday adaptation.
• The Goodman Theatre’s scheduled February 2026 premiere of his Philip Barry adaptation now faces an uncertain future.
• Actors Denis O’Hare and Jesse Tyler Ferguson led a wave of tributes, praising Greenberg’s inventive storytelling and personal warmth.
• Greenberg’s 2003 play Take Me Out won three Tony Awards and broke new ground by centering on a Major League Baseball player’s coming-out story.
• Across a career spanning over four decades, his plays and adaptations—such as Three Days of Rain, Eastern Standard and Breakfast at Tiffany’s—have shaped contemporary theater.