Acclaimed playwright Terrence McNally has died of complications due to coronavirus. McNally, the author of Master Class, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and Love! Valour! Compassion!, among many other major works, was a lung cancer survivor with chronic pulmonary disease, and died today at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Florida, at the age of 81.
McNally’s death was confirmed by his spokesperson Matt Polk. The Tony Award-winning playwright was 81, and is survived by his husband Tom Kirdahy.
A four-time Tony Award winner and recipient of the 2019 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, McNally wrote landmark and popular plays and musicals including Master Class, Ragtime, The Ritz, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, The Full Monty, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Rink and And Things That Go Bump in the Night. His more recent productions include Anastasia and Mothers and Sons.
In addition to his husband, McNally is survived by brother Peter McNally and his wife Vicky McNally, their son Stephen McNally and his wife Carmen McNally and their daughter Kylie McNally, and extended family.
With his death, McNally becomes the most notable victim of COVID-19.
Following his Broadway debut in 1965 with poorly received And Things That Go Bump in the Night, McNally focused on one-act Off Broadway plays, the most widely known of which was Next, a 1967 play directed by Elaine May.
McNally would go on to win four Tony Awards, including for plays Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class, and the books for musicals Kiss of the Spider Woman and and Ragtime. He was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1994 for A Perfect Ganesh.
McNally’s roster of credits, featuring many developed at the Manhattan Theater Club, include: Anastasia (2017), Mothers and Sons (2014), It’s Only A Play (2014), Master Class (2011, 1995), Ragtime (2009, 1998), The Ritz (2007, 1983, 1975), The Stuff of Dreams (2005), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2002), The Full Monty (2000), Love! Valour! Compassion! (1995), Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993), Lips Together, Teeth Apart (1991), The Lisbon Traviata (1989), The Rink (1984) and And Things That Go Bump in the Night (1965).
Film credits include The Ritz (1976), Frankie and Johnny (1991) and Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997). For television he wrote TV: Andre’s Mother (1990), The Last Mile (1992), Common Ground (2000) and Mama Malone (1984).
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