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Terrence McNally

by Legacy News

Sarasota, FloridaUSA

Died March 24, 2020

Age 81

Terrence McNally was an acclaimed playwright who dramatized gay lives in Tony-winning plays and musicals including “Love! Valour! Compassion!” and “Kiss of the Spider Woman.”

Obituary

“I think I wanted to write about what it’s like to be a gay man at this particular moment in our history. I think I wanted to tell my friends how much they’ve meant to me. I think I wanted to tell everyone else who we are when they aren’t around. I think I wanted to reach out and let more people in to those places in my heart where I don’t ordinarily welcome strangers.”…

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