Terrence McNally Dishes at Chatterbox, Aug. 25

Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally, whose new play Dedication or the Stuff of Dreams recently opened at Primary Stages, will share his wit and insight with Seth Rudetsky on the August 25th edition of Seth's Broadway Chatterbox.

The weekly chat show, a Broadway institution for some years, features Broadway stars confiding stories to Rudetsky at Don't Tell Mama on Thursdays at 6 PM. The $10 donation benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the nation's leading industry-based, not-for-profit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organization.

McNally has garnered Tony Awards for his plays Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class; he was nominated for the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Perfect Ganesh.  As a librettist of musicals, he received Tony Awards for his books to Kiss of the Spiderwoman and Ragtime, and was also nominated for The Full Monty.  His other plays include Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, The Ritz, The Lisbon Traviata, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, Corpus Christi and Bad Habits.  McNally, who wrote the book for the Chita Rivera-Liza Minnelli musical The Rink, will reteam with the first of those two legends for The Dancer's Life, which opens this December.

A man of many talents, Rudetsky has teamed up with The Actor's Fund as Artistic Producer, conductor and musical director on star-studded productions of Hair, Chess, Funny Girl and the Dreamgirls 20th Anniversary Concert. Rudetsky filmed five episodes of All My Children last year as Rudy the choreographer opposite Susan Lucci and entertained wildly enthusiastic audiences in his long running Off-Broadway, GLAAD-nominated hit Rhapsody in Seth, which he originally developed at Ars Nova. As a pit pianist and conductor, Rudetsky has leant his talents to over 15 Broadway shows, including 42nd Street, The Full Monty, Phantom of the Opera, Mamma Mia! and The Producers. Rudetsky was part of the three-time Emmy-nominated comedy writing team for The Rosie O'Donnell Show and wrote the lyrics and opening numbers of the 1998 and 2000 Tony Awards shows.