Terrence McNally
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Birth Place: St. Petersburg, FL, USA
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McNally has had a remarkably far-ranging career spanning six decades. In 2018 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a recipient of the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award. He has won four Tony Awards for his ...
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Terrence McNally Biography
McNally has had a remarkably far-ranging career spanning six decades. In 2018 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a recipient of the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award. He has won four Tony Awards for his plays Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class and his musical books for Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime.He has written a number of TV scripts, including "Andre's Mother," for which he won an Emmy Award. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, four Drama Desk Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, two Obie Awards, and three Hull-Warriner Awards from the Dramatists Guild. In 1996 he was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame.
He wrote the libretto for the operas Great Scottand Dead Man Walking, both with music by Jake Heggie. Other plays include Mothers and Sons; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; The Lisbon Traviata; A Perfect Ganesh; The Visit; The Full Monty; Corpus Christi; Bad Habits; Next; The Ritz; Anastasia; It’s Only a Play; Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone?; and The Stendhal Syndrome.
Terrence McNally Awards and Nominations
| Tony Awards - 2020 - Best Revival of a Play | ||
| Terrence McNally, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune | ||
Tony Awards - 2019 - Special Tony Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre  |
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| Drama Desk Awards - 2017 - Outstanding Book of a Musical | ||
| Terrence McNally, Anastasia | ||
| Outer Critics Circle Awards - 2017 - Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | ||
| Terrence McNally, Anastasia | ||
| Drama League Awards - 2015 - Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play | ||
| Terrence McNally, It's Only a Play | ||
| The Lortels - 2015 - Lifetime Achievement Award |
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| Tony Awards - 2015 - Best Book of a Musical | ||
| Terrence McNally, The Visit | ||
| - 2014 - Legend of Off Broadway Honorees |
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| Tony Awards - 2014 - Best Play | ||
| Terrence McNally, Mothers and Sons | ||
| Drama Desk Awards - 2007 - Outstanding Play | ||
| Terrence McNally, Some Me | ||
| Helen Hayes Awards - 2004 - The Helen Hayes Tribute, sponsored by Jaylee and Gilbert Mead |
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| Drama Desk Awards - 2002 - Outstanding Book of a Musical |
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| Terrence McNally, A Man of No Importance | ||
| Tony Awards - 2001 - Best Book of a Musical | ||
| Terrence McNally, The Full Monty | ||
| Drama Desk Awards - 2000 - Outstanding Book of a Musical |
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| Terrence McNally, The Full Monty | ||
| Drama Desk Awards - 1998 - Best Book of a Musical |
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| Terrence McNally, Ragtime | ||
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards - 1998 - Best Musical | ||
| Terrence McNally, Ragtime | ||
| Tony Awards - 1998 - Best Book of a Musical |
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| Terrence McNally, Ragtime | ||
| Tony Awards - 1996 - Best Play |
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| Terrence McNally, Master Class | ||
| Drama Desk Awards - 1995 - Outstanding Play |
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| Terrence McNally, Love! Valour! Compassion! | ||
| Drama Desk Awards - 1995 - Outstanding Play |
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| Terrence McNally, Love! Valour! Compassion! | ||
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards - 1995 - Best American Play |
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| Terrence McNally, Love! Valour! Compassion! | ||
| Obie Awards - 1995 - Playwriting |
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| Terrence McNally, Love! Valour! Compassion! | ||
| Tony Awards - 1995 - Best Play |
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| Terrence McNally, Love! Valour! Compassion! | ||
| The Pulitzer Prize - 1994 - The Pulitzer Prize for Drama | ||
| Terrence McNally, A Perfect Ganesh | ||
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards - 1993 - Best Musical |
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| Terrence McNally, Kiss of the Spider Woman | ||
| Tony Awards - 1993 - Best Book of a Musical |
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| Terrence McNally, Kiss of the Spider Woman | ||
| Drama Desk Awards - 1992 - Outstanding New Play |
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| Terrence McNally, Lips Together, Teeth Apart | ||
| The Lortels - 1992 - Outstanding Body of Work |
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| Drama Desk Awards - 1975 - Outstanding New American Play | ||
| Terrence McNally, The Ritz | ||
| Obie Awards - 1974 - Distinguished Plays |
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| Terrence McNally, Bad Habits | ||
Terrence McNally News
Broadway Buying Guide: November 21, 2022by Team BWW - Nov 21, 2022
Looking for the best deals on Broadway shows? Welcome to our new weekly guide to the most popular shows listed on BroadwayWorld. Check out which shows are selling this week, November 21, 2022.
World Premiere of DOUBLE HELIX, MASTER CLASS Starring Kate Burton & More to Headline Bay Street Theater 2023 Seasonby Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 17, 2022
Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts has announced that its 2023 Mainstage Season will bring together top theatrical talent in a spectacular four-show summer lineup. With a stellar mix of old and new, the season kicks off with the world premiere of Double Helix (May 30–June 18).
A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE to Present Special Benefit Performance in Decemberby Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 17, 2022
Classic Stage Company will present a benefit performance of A Man of No Importance on Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 7PM. Proceeds from the evening will benefit Classic Stage Company’s work to present reimagined classic theater.
Alison Fraser to Lead STRANGER INTERLUDES Industry Reading at Boundless Theaterby Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 16, 2022
Boundless Theater announced has that Stranger Interludes, a new play by David James Parr, will receive an industry reading on Friday, November 18th at The Dramatists Guild Foundation, directed by Amanda Bearse (“Married… with Children”, Billy Eichner’s Bros).
Center Stage Theatre Announces 2023 Season Featuring XANADU, A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING & Moreby Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 15, 2022
Center Stage Theatre, an inclusive and intergenerational community-based theatre providing high quality and affordable performances, educational programming and volunteer opportunities, has announced its 2023 season.
Broadway Buying Guide: November 14, 2022by Team BWW - Nov 14, 2022
Looking for the best deals on Broadway shows? Welcome to our new weekly guide to the most popular shows listed on BroadwayWorld. Check out which shows are selling this week, November 7, 2022.
Review: GEORGE C WOLFE'S “THE COLORED MUSEUM” ON EXHIBIT at American Stageby Drew Eberhard - Nov 13, 2022
The Colored Museum a play with music was written by George C. Wolfe. The play premiered at the Crossroads Theatre in 1986 and was directed by L. Kenneth Richardson. Wolfe’s work is the focus of 11 individual sketches or “exhibits” and through these revues, recounts satirical and prominent themes and people throughout African-American History and Culture. As the second show in their 2022/2023 “This is America” Season, American Stage planned to stage this show as a way to redefine our ideas of what it means to be African American in Contemporary America. George C. Wolfe’s review show was the winner of the 1988 NAACP Image Award.
Chris Harrison, Kaley Ann Voorhess, and Eric Anthony Lopez Set for AIM GALA This Monthby Blair Ingenthron - Nov 13, 2022
Kaley Ann Voorhees & Eric Anthony Lopez (both from the World Tour & Broadway companies of The Phantom of The Opera) are set to perform at AIM's 8th Annual Youth Mental Health Gala on November 18th at The Spanish Bay Grand in Pebble Beach, CA. The evening will be presented by Former Host of ABC's The Bachelor/The Bachelorette, Chris Harrison.
Memorial Celebration for Max Woodward to Take Place at the Kennedy Center This Monthby Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 11, 2022
A salute to Max Woodward will take place at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. on Monday November 21, 2022 at 3:00PM. Woodward, who went to work at Kennedy Center the week it opened and retired after forty-five years as Vice-President of Theater Programming, died on October 14, 2022 in Washington, D.C.
Photos: Original Cast Member Faith Prince Visits A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCEby Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 7, 2022
Faith Prince, who played Lily in the original production of A Man of No Importance, attended the show at CSC this weekend. See the photos here!
Terrence McNally Videos
by Opening Night - Nov 1, 2022
Classic Stage Company's A Man Of No Importance officially opened on Sunday, October 30. Check out our coverage from the opening night red carpet in the video here!
by Michael Major - Oct 24, 2022
Jim Parsons appeared on CBS Mornings recently to discuss appearing Off-Broadway in A Man of No Importance. Parsons discussed the intimacy of performing the show at Classic Stage Company, his Irish accent in the production, the recent Big Bang Theory reunion, and more Watch the new video interview now!
by Stephi Wild - Mar 8, 2022
San Diego Musical Theatre is currently staging the musical comedy Catch Me If You Can from now until March 13th. The production opened on February 11th.
by Stage Tube - Feb 22, 2022
San Diego Musical Theatre is currently staging the musical comedy Catch Me If You Can from now until March 13th. The production opened on February 11th. According to the Rancho Santa Fe Review, this marks Allison Spratt Pearce's professional directing debut. Catch Me if You Can at San Diego Musical Theatre is choreographed by Xavier J. Bush and music directed by Richard Dueñez Morrison.
by Stage Tube - Feb 16, 2022
San Diego Musical Theatre is currently staging the musical comedy Catch Me If You Can from now until March 13th. The production opened on February 11th. According to the Rancho Santa Fe Review, this marks Allison Spratt Pearce's professional directing debut. Catch Me if You Can at San Diego Musical Theatre is choreographed by Xavier J. Bush and music directed by Richard Dueñez Morrison.
by Stephi Wild - Dec 14, 2021
Patti LuPone was a guest on last night's episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers, which she shared some of her memories working with Stephen Sondheim, and more.
by BroadwayWorld TV - Nov 4, 2021
Yesterday afternoon, the Historic Landmarks and Preservation Center (Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, Chair) placed a Cultural Medallion on the home Terrence McNally shared with his husband, Tom Kirdahy, for more than 20 years, in an intimate ceremony with family and friends.
by Stage Tube - Jul 2, 2021
Professionally filmed onstage at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, Tony Award winner Terrence McNally’s hit comedy comes to life for this new streaming production! It is opening night on Broadway, and an unforgettable cast of characters, from the self-possessed leading lady to the starry-eyed coat check boy, is eagerly awaiting “rave” reviews
by Backstage With Richard Ridge - Mar 27, 2021
Watch as Richard chats with Tony Award-nominated stage and screen actor Micah Stock, who currently stars on Netflix's cult favorite, Bonding and Disney+/Nat Geo's The Right Stuff, in which he plays real-life NASA astronaut Deke Slayton.
by BroadwayWorld TV - Feb 18, 2021
Ragtime originally opened on Broadway in 1998 at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, where it played for 834 performances. With music by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens and a book by Terrence McNally, Ragtime tells the story of three groups in the United States: African Americans, upper-class suburbanites, and Eastern European immigrants.
