Terrence McNally (November 3, 1938 – March 24, 2020) was an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. Having survived the AIDS epidemic and lung cancer, he died of complications from coronavirus on Tuesday at age 81.
Described as “the bard of American theater”[1] and “one of the greatest contemporary playwrights the theater world has yet produced,”[2] McNally was the recipient of the 2019 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement,[3][4] the 2019 Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award,[5] and the Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2018, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the highest recognition of artistic merit in the United States.[6] In 1996, he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.[7]
He received the Tony Award for Best Play for Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class, as well as the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime.[8][9] His other accolades included an Emmy Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, four Drama Desk Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, two Obie Awards, and three Hull-Warriner Awards.[10]
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Anastasia Tony Awards
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"Catch Me if you Can" 2011 Tony Awards performance
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The Visit
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Ragtime
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Kiss of the Spider Woman 1992
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The Rink. 1984 Tony Awards
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Fire and Air
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Deuce
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Lips Together Teeth Apart
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It's Only A Play - 6 minutes
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It's Only a Play (1986)
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The Ritz - Trailer
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Rita Moreno 1975
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On Set | Terrence McNally
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An Interview with Terrence McNally
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Love! Valour! Compassion!
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Mothers and Sons
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Tony Awards
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Mothers and Son-2014
