Michael Blakemore, an acclaimed stage director in Britain and the only one in Broadway history to win Tony Awards for both best play and best musical in the same season, died on Sunday. He was 95.
His death was announced by his agents on Tuesday. It did not say where he died. Mr. Blakemore was nominated seven times for Tonys, notably for his productions of Peter Nichols's A Day in the Death of Joe Egg in 1968 and Michael Frayn's Noises Off in 1983.
But it was the flair and care he brought to a revival of Kiss Me, Kate, the Cole Porter show about a troupe of players presenting a musical version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, and to a later Frayn play, Copenhagen, that won him the unique double of best direction of a musical and best direction of a play in 2000.
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