Joan Stein, 59, a Tony-winning theater and television producer who helped to launch several long-running L.A. stage productions, including Love Letters, Forever Plaid and Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile, died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
A Hollywood resident, she had been diagnosed four weeks ago with a rare type of cancer affecting the appendix, said her husband, Ted Weiant.
In 1999, Ms. Stein won a Tony Award as one of the producers of the Broadway play Side Man, a drama set in the postwar jazz world. Her other Broadway producing credits include the recent musicals Catch Me If You Can and 9 to 5, as well as the 2002 revival of The Elephant Man.
