Remembering Harry Haun, Who Chronicled Broadway with Wit and Wonder

When Broadway’s tireless chronicler Harry Haun joined Observer’s roster in 2012, he was already a legend in arts journalism. Over the years, we’ve been fortunate to work with many phenomenal writers covering the theater beat—Jesse Oxfeld, Rex Reed and the late John Heilpern among them—but none was as passionately invested in both the art form and the storytelling that surrounds it as Harry, who died earlier this week at age 85 following complications from congestive heart failure.

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