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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Arin Arbus, Terrence McNally, Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon during the Opening Night Curtain Call for "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune" at the Broadhurst Theatre on May 29, 2019 in New York City.
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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Drama Desk Awards - 2000 - Outstanding Book of a Musical ![]() |
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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 | ||
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Tony Awards - 1998 - Best Book of a Musical ![]() |
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Tony Awards - 1996 - Best Play ![]() |
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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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New York Drama Critics Circle Awards - 1995 - Best American Play ![]() |
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Obie Awards - 1995 - Playwriting ![]() |
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Tony Awards - 1995 - Best Play ![]() |
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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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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 News

by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 17, 2022
Nominations for the 2022 Chita Rivera Awards were announced today. In keeping with the mission of the Chita Rivera Awards, nominators considered shows and films that opened during the 2019-2022 theater season.

by Marissa Tomeo - May 15, 2022
The REV Theatre Company has announced the cast and creative team for its inaugural production of the 2022 Season – Catch Me If You Can.

by Marissa Tomeo - May 14, 2022
Broadway in Indianapolis is proud to announce the 2022-2023 Season celebrating the three Indianapolis premieres of Anastasia, Disney’s Aladdin, and Ain’t Too Proud - The Life and Times of the Temptations. Rounding out the series are three epic return engagements of Hairspray, Les Misérables, and two weeks of Hamilton.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 13, 2022
This Memorial Day Weekend, the legendary Tony Award winner Chita Rivera (The Rink, Kiss of the Spider Woman) and the Tony Award nominated song-and-dance man Tony Yazbeck (On the Town) bring Broadway to the Berkshires.

by Stephi Wild - May 13, 2022
Chita Rivera will appear on WNBC’s New York Live on Tuesday, May 17th at 11:30am to announce the nominations for the 2022 Chita Rivera Awards.

by Nicole Rosky - May 12, 2022
Theatrical licensor Music Theatre International (MTI) announced the release of Dramatic Moments, the first product from MTI Classroom, which is an inspiring collaboration between theatre teachers, students, authors and industry professionals designed to elevate arts education. MTI Classroom lets theatre practitioners and fans engage with the shows and musical theatre authors they know and love.

by Stephi Wild - May 12, 2022
Broadway Star Anthony Rapp will open the Tower Theatre Foundation's Inaugural Stage the Change PNW Conference in Bend, Oregon on Friday, May 20, 2022 with a keynote to conference attendees followed by a concert to attendees as well as members of the general public.

by A.A. Cristi - May 11, 2022
Nearly one million people in the United States are living with Parkinson's disease and about 60,000 people in this country are diagnosed each year with the brain disorder, which primarily affects motor functions.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 10, 2022
The American Theatre Guild will present the South Bend engagement of the new Broadway musical ANASTASIA. This production is part of the BROADWAY IS BACK IN SOUTH BEND SERIES and will take the Morris Performing Arts Center stage June 24–26, 2022.

by Stephi Wild - May 10, 2022
The American Theatre Guild is pleased to present the Lubbock engagement of the new Broadway musical ANASTASIA. This production is part of the BROADWAY IS BACK AT THE BUDDY HOLLY HALL SERIES and will take The Buddy Holly Hall stage June 20–21, 2022.
Terrence McNally Videos

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.

by BroadwayWorld TV - Dec 16, 2020
In this exclusive clip from the upcoming PBS special “United in Song: Celebrating the Resilience of America,” Tony winners Audra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell perform “Wheels of a Dream” from “Ragtime.”

by Stage Tube - Sep 21, 2020
Judy Kuhn's performance as part of The Seth Concert Series, re-airs today at 3 PM ET. Check out an exclusive clip from the concert, which premiered last night, featuring Kuhn singing 'Someone Elsea??s Story' from Chess!