Broadway Marquees Will Dim for Maggie Smith This Week

The lights of Broadway’s marquees will dim in honor of Dame Maggie Smith at 6:45pm on Thursday, November 7.

Smith died on September 27 at the age of 89.

On Broadway she won a Tony for Lettice and Lovage, and was nominated for Private Lives and Night and Day. Into the 21st century, she continued to tackle a variety of major productions, playing in Alan Bennett’s The Lady in the Van and delivering performances in plays by  David Hare and Peter Shaffer. Her final stage appearance was in 2019’s A German Life at the Bridge Theatre, earning an Evening Standard Theatre Award for the role.

Smith indelibly stared in Gosford Park and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel series, played Wendy in Hook, the Reverend Mother in Sister Act and Sister Act 2, and Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film series. She cemented her status as an icon with her final major role, the Dowager Countess in Downton Abbey, which earned her three Emmy Awards for line deliveries like “What is a weekend?”