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Scott McPherson, author of the acclaimed Off-Broadway play "Marvin's Room," died Saturday at his home in Chicago of complications from AIDS. He was 33.
Mr. McPherson, who began in the theater as an actor, won numerous awards - from the Drama Desk, whose members voted "Marvin's Room" the best play of the 1991-92 New York theater season; from the Outer Critics Circle, which named it the season's best new Off-Broadway play, and from this newspaper, which earlier in the fall awarded him its annual George Oppenheimer Award for the season's best New York playwriting debut. The award luncheon, which features a scene from the play performed by the original cast, is still scheduled for Monday at An American Place as a tribute to Mr. McPherson. Also in his honor, New York Newsday is matching its $5,000 prize to the playwright with a contribution to Broadway Cares.
In an author's note when the play opened at Playwrights...