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| birth_date = {{birth date|1938|11|3}}
| birth_place = [[St. Petersburg, Florida]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|2020|3|24|1938|11|3}}
| death_place = [[Sarasota, Florida]]
| occupation = Playwright, [[Libretto|librettist]]
| education = [[Columbia University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
| period = 1964–2020
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Tom Kirdahy]]|23 December 2003}}
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'''Terrence McNally''' (November 3, 1938 – March 24, 2020) was an American [[playwright]], [[librettist]], and [[screenwriter]]. Described as "the bard of American theater"<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/10/t-magazine/terrence-mcnally-interview.html|title=A Conversation With Terrence McNally, the Bard of American Theater|date=April 10, 2019|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 23, 2020|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and "one of the greatest contemporary playwrights the theater world has yet produced,"<ref>{{Cite news|first=Rex|last=Reed|author-link=Rex Reed|url=http://observer.com/2014/03/a-provincial-lady-tyne-daly-shines-in-mothers-and-sons/|title=A Provincial Lady: Tyne Daly Shines in ''Mothers and Sons''|date=March 26, 2014|newspaper=[[The New York Observer]]|access-date=October 14, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018232021/http://observer.com/2014/03/a-provincial-lady-tyne-daly-shines-in-mothers-and-sons/|archive-date=October 18, 2016}}</ref> McNally was the recipient of five Tony Awards.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Boehm|first=Mike|date=March 24, 2020|title=Playwright Terrence McNally, 81, dies of coronavirus-related complications|work=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2020-03-24/terrence-mcnally-dead
▲Described as "the bard of American theater"<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/10/t-magazine/terrence-mcnally-interview.html|title=A Conversation With Terrence McNally, the Bard of American Theater|date=April 10, 2019|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 23, 2020|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and "one of the greatest contemporary playwrights the theater world has yet produced,"<ref>{{Cite news|first=Rex|last=Reed|author-link=Rex Reed|url=http://observer.com/2014/03/a-provincial-lady-tyne-daly-shines-in-mothers-and-sons/|title=A Provincial Lady: Tyne Daly Shines in ''Mothers and Sons''|date=March 26, 2014|newspaper=[[The New York Observer]]|access-date=October 14, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018232021/http://observer.com/2014/03/a-provincial-lady-tyne-daly-shines-in-mothers-and-sons/|archive-date=October 18, 2016}}</ref> McNally was the recipient of five Tony Awards.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Boehm|first=Mike|date=March 24, 2020|title=Playwright Terrence McNally, 81, dies of coronavirus-related complications|work=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2020-03-24/terrence-mcnally-dead|url-status=live|access-date=January 4, 2021}}</ref> He won the [[Tony Award for Best Play]] for ''[[Love! Valour! Compassion!]]'' and ''[[Master Class]]'' and the [[Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical]] for ''[[Kiss of the Spider Woman (musical)|Kiss of the Spider Woman]]'' and ''[[Ragtime (musical)|Ragtime]],''<ref>{{cite web|title=Terrence McNally|url=http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/27775/Terrence-McNally|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006132830/http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/27775/Terrence-McNally|archive-date=October 6, 2014|access-date=October 5, 2014|website=Playbill Vault}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=American Stage Presents Frankie and Johnny in the Claire De Lune|url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/wireless/read.cfm?id=237661|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402154721/http://www.broadwayworld.com/wireless/read.cfm?id=237661|archive-date=April 2, 2015|access-date=March 26, 2015|publisher=Broadway World.com}}</ref> and received the 2019 [[Special Tony Award|Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement.]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Special Tony Awards for Lifetime Achievement 2019|url=https://www.tonyawards.com/news/2019-special-tony-awards-lifetime-achievement-announced/|access-date=2021-01-04|website=www.tonyawards.com|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Libbey|first=Peter|date=2019-06-10|title=2019 Tony Award Winners: Full List (Published 2019)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/09/theater/tony-awards-winners.html|access-date=2021-01-04|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He was inducted into the [[American Theater Hall of Fame]] in 1996, and he also received the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011 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. His other accolades included an [[Emmy Award]], two [[Guggenheim Fellowship]]s, a [[Rockefeller Foundation|Rockefeller Grant]], four [[Drama Desk Award]]s, two [[Lucille Lortel Awards]], two [[Obie Award]]s, and three [[Hull-Warriner Award]]s.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Purcell|first1=Carey|title=Jason Alexander, Tyne Daly, Cheyenne Jackson and More Will Honor Terrence McNally at Skylight Theatre Company|url=http://m.playbill.com/news/article/jason-alexander-tyne-daly-cheyenne-jackson-and-more-will-honor-terrence-mcn-209399|access-date=October 5, 2014|agency=Playbill|date=September 11, 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006101745/http://m.playbill.com/news/article/jason-alexander-tyne-daly-cheyenne-jackson-and-more-will-honor-terrence-mcn-209399|archive-date=October 6, 2014}}</ref>
His career spanned six decades, and his plays, musicals, and operas were routinely performed all over the world.<ref>{{cite news|title=Playwright Terrence McNally Coming to City This Month|url=http://www.times-news.com/news/local_news/article_52b41bbe-fae9-5299-8bde-a266664e1c59.html|access-date=October 5, 2014|work=Cumberland Times-News|date=October 1, 2010}}</ref> He also wrote screenplays, teleplays, and a memoir.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.samuelfrench.com/author/1896/terrence-mcnally|title=Terrence McNally {{!}} Samuel French|website=www.samuelfrench.com|access-date=June 2, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507160713/http://www.samuelfrench.com/author/1896/terrence-mcnally|archive-date=May 7, 2016}}</ref><ref name=parademag /> Active in the regional and [[off-Broadway]] theatre movements as well as on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]], he was one of the few playwrights of his generation to have successfully passed from the [[avant-garde]] to mainstream acclaim.<ref name=glbtqfrontain>{{Cite web|url=http://www.glbtqarchive.com/essays/frontain_mcnally.pdf|title=Terrence McNally: Theater as Connection|last=Frontain|first=Raymond|date=April 1, 2013|website=GLBTQ Archives|access-date=October 14, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161215172123/http://www.glbtqarchive.com/essays/frontain_mcnally.pdf|archive-date=December 15, 2016}}</ref> His work centered on the difficulties of and urgent need for human connection. He was vice-president of the Council of the [[Dramatists Guild]] from 1981 to 2001.
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McNally was born November 3, 1938, in [[St. Petersburg, Florida]], to Hubert Arthur and Dorothy Katharine (Rapp) McNally,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Galanes |first1=Philip |title=A Conversation With Terrence McNally, the Bard of American Theater |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/10/t-magazine/terrence-mcnally-interview.html |work=The New York Times |date=April 10, 2019}}</ref> two transplanted New Yorkers from Irish Catholic backgrounds.<ref>{{cite web | title= Terrence McNally's love of Irish energy | publisher = Irish Central | access-date = April 22, 2020 | date=June 10, 2015 |first = Cahir | last = O'Doherty | url = https://www.irishcentral.com/news/irishvoice/terrence-mcnallys-love-of-irish-energy}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/terrence-mcnally-obituary-us-playwright-who-charted-gay-experience-1.4219135 | title= Terrence McNally Obituary: US playwright who charted gay experience | newspaper = The Irish Times | access-date = April 22, 2020 | date=April 4, 2020 }}</ref> His parents ran a seaside bar and grill called The Pelican Club, but after a hurricane destroyed the establishment, the family briefly relocated to [[Port Chester, New York]], then to [[Dallas|Dallas, Texas]], and finally to [[Corpus Christi, Texas]]. There Hubert McNally purchased and managed a [[Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company|Schlitz beer]] distributorship,<ref>{{cite news |title=Clipped From The Corpus Christi Caller-Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9524013/the-corpus-christi-caller-times/ |access-date=24 March 2020 |work=The Corpus Christi Caller-Times |date=23 September 1976 |pages=26}}</ref> and McNally attended [[W. B. Ray High School|W.B. Ray High School]]. Despite his distance from New York City, McNally's parents enjoyed Broadway musicals. When McNally was eight years old, his parents took him to see ''[[Annie Get Your Gun (musical)|Annie Get Your Gun]]'', starring [[Ethel Merman]], and on a subsequent outing, McNally saw [[Gertrude Lawrence]] in ''[[The King and I]]''.<ref>{{cite book | page= 3 | title= Terrence McNally: A Casebook | first = Toby Silverman | last = Zinman | date= 1997 | publisher = Routledge}}</ref> McNally later said: "When I saw ''On the Town'', with Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly and Jules Munshin with the Staten Island Ferry and the Empire State Building, I said: 'That's where I want to live.' I've never regretted it."<ref name=barnes/>{{efn|He continued: "I feel at home in New York, or I feel like a very welcome visitor.... If you really want to work in theater and you're serious about it — and I got serious about this pretty early — it's the only practical city to live in. If you can find a way. And I was very lucky that this was a much more welcoming city to new artists in the '60s than it is now. It's too expensive to live here now. The young writers I know live in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens. Nobody can live on the island now. When I got here at 17, I didn't even visit Brooklyn. I wouldn't leave the island, and now young people can't afford to be on the island, but they seem happy and find a way to make ends meet.<ref name=barnes/>}} In high school McNally was encouraged to write by a gifted English teacher, Maurine McElroy (1913–2005).{{efn|He dedicated both ''Apple Pie'' (1968), a collection of one-act plays, and ''Frankie and Johnnie'' to her.<ref name=pie/><ref>{{cite book | access-date = March 26, 2020 | page= 3 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-VhOAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA3 | publisher = McFarland | date= 2013 |title= The Theater of Terrence McNally: A Critical Study | first = Peter | last = Wolfe| isbn= 9780786474950 }}</ref>}}
He enrolled at [[Columbia College (New York)|Columbia College]] in 1956. There he especially enjoyed Andrew Chiappe's two-semester course on [[Shakespeare]] in which students read Shakespeare's plays in roughly the order of their composition.<ref>{{cite interview |first= Terrence | last = McNally | access-date = March 27, 2020 | url = https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/latest/take-five/take-five-terrence-mcnally-60 | work= Columbia College Today | interviewer = Michael Nagle | title= Take Five with Terrence McNally '60 }}</ref> He joined the [[Boar's Head Society]]<ref name="columbiareview">{{cite web|title = History |publisher = Columbia Review |url = http://columbiareviewmag.com/history/|date = May 22, 2014|access-date = March 5, 2016 |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160314064703/http://columbiareviewmag.com/history/|archive-date = March 14, 2016 }}</ref> and wrote Columbia's annual [[Varsity Show]], which featured music by fellow student [[Edward Kleban|Edward L. Kleban]] and directed by [[Michael Kahn (theatre director)|Michael P. Kahn]]. He graduated in 1960 with a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in English and membership in [[Phi Beta Kappa Society]].<ref name= glbtqfrontain/><ref>{{Cite web|date=March 25, 2020|title=Columbia College mourns the loss of Terrence McNally CC'60|url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/news/columbia-college-mourns-loss-terrence-mcnally-cc-60|access-date=December 21, 2020|website=Columbia College}}</ref> In 1961, McNally was hired by novelist [[John Steinbeck]] to tutor his two teenage sons as the Steinbeck family took a cruise around the world.{{efn|McNally had been recommended by [[Molly Kazan]], the Steinbecks' neighbor and McNally's mentor at the Playwrights Unit of the [[Actors Studio]].<ref name=anq/>}} On the cruise McNally completed a draft of what became the opening act of ''[[And Things That Go Bump in the Night]]''. Steinbeck asked McNally to write the libretto for ''[[Here's Where I Belong]]'', a musical version of the novel ''[[East of Eden (novel)|East of Eden]]''.<ref name=anq>{{cite journal|last1=Frontain|first1=Raymond-Jean|title=McNally and Steinbeck|journal=ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews|date=August 7, 2010|volume=21|issue=4|pages=43–51|doi=10.3200/ANQQ.21.4.43-51|s2cid=162345400}}</ref>
==Career==
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=== Mid-career ===
After the failure of ''Broadway, Broadway'' and living briefly in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], he returned to New York City and formed an artistic relationship with Manhattan Theatre Club. The rapid spread of [[HIV/AIDS|AIDS]] fundamentally changed his writing.<ref name= glbtqfrontain/> McNally only became truly successful with works such as the off-Broadway production of ''[[Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune]]'' and its screen adaptation with stars [[Al Pacino]] and [[Michelle Pfeiffer]]. His first [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] musical was ''[[The Rink (musical)|The Rink]]'' in 1984, a project he joined after the score by composer [[John Kander]] and lyricist [[Fred Ebb]] had been written. In 1990, McNally won an [[Emmy Award]] for Best Writing in a Miniseries or Special for ''[[Andre's Mother]]'', a drama about a woman coping with her son's death from AIDS. A year later, in ''[[Lips Together, Teeth Apart]]'', two married couples spend the Fourth of July weekend at a summer house on [[Fire Island]]. They are all afraid to use the pool given that its owner
With ''[[Kiss of the Spider Woman (musical)|Kiss of the Spider Woman]]'' (based on the novel by [[Manuel Puig]]) in 1992, McNally returned to the musical stage, collaborating with Kander and Ebb on a script which explores the complex relationship between two men jailed together in a Latin American prison. ''Kiss of the Spider Woman'' won the 1993 [[Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical]], the first of McNally's four [[Tony Award]]s. He collaborated with [[Stephen Flaherty]] and [[Lynn Ahrens]] on ''[[Ragtime (musical)|Ragtime]]'' in 1997, a musical adaptation of the [[E. L. Doctorow]] novel, which tells the story of Coalhouse Walker Jr., a black musician who demands retribution when his [[Model T]] is destroyed by a mob of white troublemakers. The musical also features such historical figures as [[Harry Houdini]], [[Booker T. Washington]], [[J. P. Morgan]], and [[Henry Ford]]. For his libretto, McNally won his third Tony Award. ''Ragtime'' finished its Broadway run on January 16, 2000. A revival in 2009 closed after only two months.<ref>[http://www.readperiodicals.com/201104/2236775641.html#b "The Sondheim Review: Mutual admiration, Sondheim and playwright Terrence McNally began a collaboration in 1991, by Raymond-Jean Frontain] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116205312/http://www.readperiodicals.com/201104/2236775641.html |date=January 16, 2014 }} readperiodicals.com, April 1, 2011</ref>
McNally's other plays from this period include 1994's ''[[Love! Valour! Compassion!]]'', with Lane and [[John Glover (actor)|John Glover]], which examines the relationships of eight gay men; it won McNally his second Tony Award
McNally's ''[[Corpus Christi (play)|Corpus Christi]]'' (1997) became the subject of protests. In this retelling of the story of Jesus' birth, ministry, and death, he and his disciples are portrayed as homosexual. The play was initially canceled because of death threats against the board members of the [[Manhattan Theatre Club]], which produced the play.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/28/opinion/censoring-terrence-mcnally.html|title=Censoring Terrence McNally|date=May 28, 1998|work=The New York Times|access-date=June 8, 2018}}</ref> The board relented after several other playwrights, including [[Athol Fugard]], threatened to withdraw their plays if ''Corpus Christi'' was not produced. A crowd of almost 2,000 protested the play as blasphemous at its opening. After it opened in London in 1999, a group called the "Defenders of the Messenger Jesus" issued a [[fatwa]] sentencing McNally to death.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/493436.stm|title=Fatwa for 'gay Jesus' writer|date=October 29, 1999|access-date=April 19, 2007|work=[[BBC News]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061112050733/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/493436.stm|archive-date=November 12, 2006}}</ref> In 2008, the play was revived in New York City at [[Rattlestick Playwrights Theater|Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre]]. Reviewing this production for ''[[The New York Times]]'', Jason Zinoman wrote that "without the noise of controversy, the play can finally be heard. Staged with admirable delicacy... the work seems more personal than political, a coming-of-age story wrapped in religious sentiment."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/theater/reviews/22corp.html|title=At Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, a Modern, Gay You-Know-Who Superstar|last=Zinoman|first=Jason|date=October 21, 2008|work=The New York Times|access-date=June 8, 2018 }}</ref>
=== Late career ===
In 2000, McNally partnered with composer and lyricist [[David Yazbek]] to write the musical ''[[The Full Monty (musical)|The Full Monty]]'', which was directed by [[Jack O'Brien (director)|Jack
McNally collaborated on several new American operas.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/12/AR2010031200148.html|title=Terrence McNally's love of opera takes center stage at Kennedy Center|last=Marks|first=Peter|date=March 14, 2010|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=August 13, 2018}}</ref> His voice may be more familiar with opera fans than theater-goers, as for nearly 30 years (
The [[Kennedy Center]] presented three of McNally's plays that focus on opera under the heading ''Nights at the Opera,'' in March 2010. It included a new play, ''Golden Age''; ''Master Class'', starring [[Tyne Daly]]; and ''The Lisbon Traviata'', starring [[John Glover (actor)|John Glover]] and [[Malcolm Gets]].<ref>{{cite web | last=Hetrick | first= Adam | url = http://www.playbill.com/news/article/136517-Casting-Complete-for-Master-Class-with-Daly-at-the-Kennedy-Center |title=Casting Complete for Master Class, with Daly, at the Kennedy Center | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604233305/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/136517-Casting-Complete-for-Master-Class-with-Daly-at-the-Kennedy-Center|archive-date=June 4, 2011 | work = Playbill | date=February 2, 2010}}</ref><ref>Hetrick, Adam. [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/138149-Glover-and-Gets-Open-McNallys-Lisbon-Traviata-in-Washington-DC-March-25 "Glover and Gets Open McNally's ''Lisbon Traviata'' in Washington, D.C. March 25"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605031029/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/138149-Glover-and-Gets-Open-McNallys-Lisbon-Traviata-in-Washington-DC-March-25|date=June 5, 2011}} playbill.com, March 25, 2010</ref><ref>Hetrick, Adam.[http://www.playbill.com/features/article/138112-All-That-Glitters-Bobbie-Talks-About-McNallys-Golden-Age-at-the-Kennedy-Center "All That Glitters: Bobbie Talks About McNally's Golden Age at the Kennedy Center"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100331191532/http://www.playbill.com/features/article/138112-All-That-Glitters-Bobbie-Talks-About-McNallys-Golden-Age-at-the-Kennedy-Center|date=March 31, 2010}} playbill.com, March 29, 2010</ref> ''Golden Age'' subsequently ran Off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club New York City Center – Stage I from November 2012 to January 2013.<ref>Hetrick, Adam and Jones, Kenneth. [http://www.playbill.com/article/terrence-mcnallys-golden-age-starring-lee-pace-and-bebe-neuwirth-extends-off-broadway-run-com-200711# "Manhattan Theatre Club announced that Terrence McNally's backstage-set operatic play Golden Age, starring Emmy Award nominee Lee Pace as a late-in-life composer Vincenzo Bellini, has extended its run through Jan. 13, 2013"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306160931/http://www.playbill.com/article/terrence-mcnallys-golden-age-starring-lee-pace-and-bebe-neuwirth-extends-off-broadway-run-com-200711|date=March 6, 2016}} Playbill, December 14, 2012</ref>
In 2001, McNally started what became a 15-year developmental process towards Broadway with the musical ''[[The Visit (musical)|The Visit]]'', for which he wrote the book. The music is written by [[John Kander]] and the lyrics by [[Fred Ebb]]. Adapted from [[Friedrich Dürrenmatt]]
Continuing his work on librettos, McNally partnered with his collaborators on ''[[Ragtime (musical)|Ragtime]]'', [[Stephen Flaherty]] and [[Lynn Ahrens]], to write the musical ''[[A Man of No Importance (musical)|A Man of No Importance]]'' which premiered at [[Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts|Lincoln Center]] in 2002 and was directed by [[Joe Mantello]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lct.org/shows/a-man-of-no-importance/whos-who/|title=A Man of No Importance Who's Who|website=Lincoln Center Theatre|access-date=August 13, 2018}}</ref> He also wrote the libretto for ''[[Chita Rivera: The Dancer's
In 2004, [[Primary Stages]] presented
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''And Away We Go'' premiered Off-Broadway at the [[Pearl Theatre (New York City)|Pearl Theatre]] in November 2013, with direction by Jack Cummings III and featured [[Donna Lynne Champlin]], Sean McNall and Dominic Cuskern.<ref>Hetrick, Adam. [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/184279-World-Premiere-of-Terrence-McNallys-And-Away-We-Go-Opens-Off-Broadway-Nov-24 "World Premiere of Terrence McNally's ''And Away We Go'' Opens Off-Broadway Nov. 24"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140324153952/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/184279-World-Premiere-of-Terrence-McNallys-And-Away-We-Go-Opens-Off-Broadway-Nov-24 |date=March 24, 2014 }} playbill.com, November 24, 2013</ref> The play takes place over several millennia covering the most pivotal moments in dramatic history entwined with a modern-day story of a struggling theatre company.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/27/theater/reviews/terrence-mcnallys-and-away-we-go-at-the-pearl.html|title=Who Knew That Greek Festival Had Such Legs?|last=Isherwood|first=Charles|date=November 26, 2013|website=New York Times|access-date=August 13, 2018}}</ref> McNally said that
''[[Mothers and Sons (play)|Mothers and Sons]]'' starring [[Tyne Daly]] and [[Frederick Weller]] opened on Broadway at the [[John Golden Theatre]], where ''Master Class'' had its premiere, on March 24, 2014 (February 23, 2014, in previews).<ref>[http://www.playbill.com/news/article/189193-The-Verdict-Critics-Review-Terrence-McNallys-Mothers-and-Sons-Starring-Tyne-Daly?tsrc=nx "The Verdict: Critics Review Terrence McNally's ''Mothers and Sons'', Starring Tyne Daly"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413192920/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/189193-The-Verdict-Critics-Review-Terrence-McNallys-Mothers-and-Sons-Starring-Tyne-Daly?tsrc=nx |date=April 13, 2014 }} playbill.com, March 25, 2014</ref> ''Mothers and Sons'' premiered at the [[Bucks County Playhouse]] (Pennsylvania) in June 2013.<ref>Gioia, Michael. [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/187940-Tyne-Daly-and-Frederick-Weller-Explore-Relationships-of-Mothers-and-Sons-Beginning-Feb-23-On-Broadway?tsrc=hpt2 "Tyne Daly and Frederick Weller Explore Relationships of ''Mothers and Sons'', Beginning Feb. 23 On Broadway"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227064626/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/187940-Tyne-Daly-and-Frederick-Weller-Explore-Relationships-of-Mothers-and-Sons-Beginning-Feb-23-On-Broadway?tsrc=hpt2 |date=February 27, 2014 }} playbill.com, February 23, 2014</ref> Vermont Stage opened its production January 27, 2016<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vermontstage.org/mothers-and-sons.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113143326/http://www.vermontstage.org/mothers-and-sons.html|url-status=dead|title=Mothers and Sons|archive-date=January 13, 2016|website=Vermont Stage}}</ref> at FlynnSpace in [[Burlington, Vermont]]. The play is an expansion on his 1988 drama ''
McNally's ''Fire and Air'' premiered Off-Broadway at [[Classic Stage Company]] on February 1, 2018.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/James-Cusati-Moyer-Douglas-Hodge-Marsha-Mason-Marin-Mazzie-and-More-to-Star-in-Terrence-McNallys-FIRE-AND-AIR-at-Classic-Stage-Company-20180116|title=Terrence McNally's FIRE AND AIR Begins Tonight at Classic Stage Company|author=BWW News Desk|work=BroadwayWorld.com|access-date=March 16, 2018|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180317102320/https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/James-Cusati-Moyer-Douglas-Hodge-Marsha-Mason-Marin-Mazzie-and-More-to-Star-in-Terrence-McNallys-FIRE-AND-AIR-at-Classic-Stage-Company-20180116|archive-date=March 17, 2018}}</ref> The play explores the history of the [[Ballets Russes]], the Russian ballet company, with a particular focus on [[Sergei Diaghilev]], the ballet impresario, and [[Vaslav Nijinsky]], the dancer and choreographer. It featured the actors [[Douglas Hodge]], [[Marsha Mason]], [[Marin Mazzie]], [[John Glover (actor)|John Glover]], and [[Jay Armstrong Johnson]] and was directed by Tony Award-winner [[John Doyle (director)|John Doyle]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/news/classic-stage-company-extends-fire-and-air_84007.html|title=Classic Stage Company Extends Terrence McNally's Fire and Air|last=Levitt|first=Hayley|date=February 8, 2018|website=Theater Mania|access-date=August 13, 2018}}</ref>
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== Personal life ==
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In his early years in New York City, McNally's interest in theatre brought him to a party where, departing, he shared a cab with [[Edward Albee]], who had recently written ''[[The Zoo Story]]'' and ''[[The Sandbox (play)|The Sandbox]]''. They functioned as a couple for over four years during which Albee wrote ''[[The American Dream (play)|The American Dream]]'' and ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]''<ref name= glbtqfrontain/> He was frustrated by Albee's lack of openness about his sexuality. McNally later said: "I became invisible when press was around or at an opening night. I knew it was wrong.
McNally was partnered to [[Tom Kirdahy]], a Broadway producer and a former civil rights attorney for not-for-profit AIDS organizations, following a civil union ceremony in [[Vermont]] on December 20, 2003.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://howlround.com/tom-kirdahy-on-love-law-marriage-producing-theatre-and-making-a-difference|title=Tom Kirdahy on Love, Law, Marriage, Producing Theatre, and Making a Difference|website=HowlRound|date=July 2015 |access-date=June 2, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809063814/http://howlround.com/tom-kirdahy-on-love-law-marriage-producing-theatre-and-making-a-difference|archive-date=August 9, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/21/style/weddings-celebrations-terrence-mcnally-thomas-kirdahy.html |title= Terrence McNally, Thomas Kirdahy|date=December 21, 2003|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=April 19, 2007|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410190702/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06EED7143FF932A15751C1A9659C8B63|archive-date=April 10, 2008}}</ref> They married in [[Washington, D.C.]], on April 6, 2010. In celebration of the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court's]] decision to legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 states, they renewed their vows at [[New York City Hall]] with Mayor [[Bill de Blasio]], Kirdahy's college roommate,<ref>{{cite news | work = [[The New York Times]] | date = June 26, 2015 | title = Cuomo and de Blasio Find Common Ground in Celebration of Gay Marriage Decision | first1= Matt | last1 = Flegenheimer |first2= Michael M.|last2= Grynbaum | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/27/nyregion/cuomo-and-de-blasio-find-common-ground-in-celebration-of-gay-marriage-decision.html | access-date = March 24, 2020 }}</ref> officiating on June 26, 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-hosts-ceremony-honor-gay-marriage-decision-article-1.2273095|title=De Blasio hosts ceremony in honor of gay marriage decision|work=New York Daily News|date=June 26, 2015 |access-date=June 2, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160625085740/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-hosts-ceremony-honor-gay-marriage-decision-article-1.2273095|archive-date=June 25, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/2010/04/love_etc_playwright_terrence_m.html|title=Reliable Source – Love, etc.: Playwright Terrence McNally weds partner in D.C.|date=April 6, 2010|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref>▼
As a young man, McNally was a heavy drinker. He relates that while attending a party in 1980 he spilled a drink on [[Lauren Bacall]]. "Then someone I hardly knew, [[Angela Lansbury]], [said] 'I just want to say, I don't know you very well, but every time I see you, you're drunk, and it bothers me.'...She was someone I revered, and she said this with such love and concern. I went to an A.A. meeting, and within a year, I had stopped drinking."<ref name=healy>{{cite news | work = New York Times | access-date = October 16, 2022 | first= Patrick | last = Healy | date= February 27, 2014 | title = A Playwright's Status Report | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/theater/mcnallys-mothers-and-sons-gauges-a-changed-america.html }}</ref>
▲McNally was partnered to [[Tom Kirdahy]], a Broadway producer and a former civil rights attorney for not-for-profit AIDS organizations, following a civil union ceremony in [[Vermont]] on December 20, 2003.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://howlround.com/tom-kirdahy-on-love-law-marriage-producing-theatre-and-making-a-difference|title=Tom Kirdahy on Love, Law, Marriage, Producing Theatre, and Making a Difference|website=HowlRound|access-date=June 2, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809063814/http://howlround.com/tom-kirdahy-on-love-law-marriage-producing-theatre-and-making-a-difference|archive-date=August 9, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/21/style/weddings-celebrations-terrence-mcnally-thomas-kirdahy.html |title= Terrence McNally, Thomas Kirdahy|date=December 21, 2003|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=April 19, 2007|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410190702/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06EED7143FF932A15751C1A9659C8B63|archive-date=April 10, 2008}}</ref> They married in [[Washington, D.C.]] on April 6, 2010. In celebration of the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court's]] decision to legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 states, they renewed their vows at [[New York City Hall]] with Mayor [[Bill de Blasio]], Kirdahy's college roommate,<ref>{{cite news | work = [[The New York Times]] | date = June 26, 2015 | title = Cuomo and de Blasio Find Common Ground in Celebration of Gay Marriage Decision | first1= Matt | last1 = Flegenheimer |first2= Michael M.|last2= Grynbaum | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/27/nyregion/cuomo-and-de-blasio-find-common-ground-in-celebration-of-gay-marriage-decision.html | access-date = March 24, 2020 }}</ref> officiating on June 26, 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-hosts-ceremony-honor-gay-marriage-decision-article-1.2273095|title=De Blasio hosts ceremony in honor of gay marriage decision|work=New York Daily News|access-date=June 2, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160625085740/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-hosts-ceremony-honor-gay-marriage-decision-article-1.2273095|archive-date=June 25, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/2010/04/love_etc_playwright_terrence_m.html|title=Reliable Source – Love, etc.: Playwright Terrence McNally weds partner in D.C.|date=April 6, 2010|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref>
When given his Tony for Lifetime Achievement in June 2019, he began his acceptance speech saying "Lifetime achievement. Not a moment too soon." He wore a cannula and appeared short of breath.<ref name=ctlifetime>{{cite news | work = Chicago Tribune | access-date = March 26, 2020 |first= Chris | last = Jones | date= June 12, 2019 | title = Terrence McNally's lifetime award speech at the Tonys was ignored — but it was the most important of the night | url = https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/ct-ae-terrence-mcnally-tony-lifetime-0616-story.html }}</ref> McNally died at [[Sarasota Memorial Hospital]] in Sarasota, Florida, on March 24, 2020, at the age of 81, from complications of [[COVID-19]] during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. He had previously overcome [[lung cancer]] in the late 1990s that cost him portions of both his lungs due to the disease, and he was living with [[COPD]] at the time of his death.<ref name=nytobit/>
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== Documentary ==
''[[Terrence McNally: Every Act of Life]],'' a documentary about McNally's life and career, aired on [[PBS]] on June 14, 2019, as part of their [[American Masters]] series.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/terrence-mcnally-documentary-airs-on-pbs-june-14|title=Terrence McNally Documentary Airs on PBS June 14|last=Gans|first=Andrew|date=May 6, 2019|website=Playbill|language=en|access-date=September 30, 2019}}</ref><ref name="pbs.org">{{Cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/american-masters-terrence-mcnally-every-act-of-life-about/10986/|title=Terrence McNally: Every Act of Life {{!}} About {{!}} American Masters {{!}} PBS|date=January 22, 2019|website=American Masters|language=en-US|access-date=September 30, 2019}}</ref> The film features new interviews with McNally in addition to conversations with his friends and collaborators, including [[F. Murray Abraham]], [[Christine Baranski]], [[Tyne Daly]], [[Edie Falco]], [[John Kander]], [[Nathan Lane]], [[Angela Lansbury]], [[Marin Mazzie]], [[Audra McDonald]], [[Rita Moreno]], [[Billy Porter (entertainer)|Billy Porter]], [[Chita Rivera]], [[Doris Roberts]], [[John Slattery]] and [[
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* ''[[Bringing It All Back Home (play)|Bringing It All Back Home]]'' (1969)<ref name="dpsinc" />
* ''[[Noon (play)|Noon]]'' (1968), second segment of ''Morning, Noon and Night''
* ''Apple Pie''<ref name=pie>{{cite book | title= Apple Pie: Three One Act Plays | access-date = March 26, 2020 | first = Terrence | last = McNally | date= 1968 | page = 3 | publisher = Dramatists Play Service | isbn = 9780822200611 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=wkVk1sB35bMC&pg=PA3 }}</ref>
** Three one-act plays: ''Tour'', ''Next'' (in two versions), and ''Botticelli''
* ''[[Next (play)|Next]]'' (1969)
* ''[[Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone?]]'' (1971)
* ''[[Bad Habits (play)|Bad Habits]]'' (1974)<ref>{{cite interview |title= He
** Two one act plays: ''Ravenswood'' and ''Dunelawn''
* ''[[Whiskey (play)|Whiskey]]'' (1973)<ref>{{cite news | last=Gussow | first =Mel | title = Stage: 'Whiskey' Opens: Comedy by McNally Is at St. Clements The Cast | work= New York Times | date= April 30, 1973 | access-date = March 28, 2020 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1973/04/30/archives/stage-whiskey-opens-comedy-by-mcnally-is-at-st-clements-the-cast.html }}</ref>
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* ''[[It's Only a Play]]'' (1986)
* ''Hope'' (1988), second segment of ''Faith, Hope and Charity''
* ''[[Andre's Mother]]'' (1988){{efn|McNally contributed eight minutes to a theater anthology, ''Urban Blight'' and later developed it as ''Andre's Mother''.<ref name=barnes>{{cite interview | interviewer =Michael Barnes | first= Terrence | last = McNally |title= Tangling with Texas and sexuality in Terrence
* ''[[The Lisbon Traviata]]'' (1989)
* ''Prelude and Liebestod'' (1989)
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* Anderson, Virginia (2022) "Terrence McNally" in Noriega and Schildcrout (eds.) ''50 Key Figures in Queer US Theatre'', pp. 160–164. Routledge, ISBN 978-1032067964.
* {{cite news | last=Grode |first= Eric | title =Show Music: The Musical Theatre Magazine | date= Fall 2000 | volume =Sixteen | issue= Three}}
*{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/contemporaryauth02anne/page/457|title=Contemporary Authors|volume=2|first=Deborah A.|last=Straub|contribution=McNally, Terrence, 1939-|editor-last=Evory|editor-first=Ann|date=1981|publisher=Gale Research Co.|isbn=9780810319318 |pages= 457–458}}
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* [http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00276 Terrence McNally Papers] at the [[Harry Ransom Center]], [[University of Texas at Austin]]
* [http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsM/mcnally-terrence.html Terrence McNally] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230081159/http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsM/mcnally-terrence.html |date=December 30, 2017 }} at the Playwrights Database
* [http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=people&first=Terrence&middle=&last=McNally Terrence McNally] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070911031346/http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=people&first=Terrence&middle=&last=McNally |date=September 11, 2007 }} at the [[Lortel Archives|Internet Off Broadway Database]]
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