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Terrence McNally (1938–2020): Theater Changes Hearts

October 31, 2026

Playwright Terrence McNally

Terrence McNally, the four-time Tony-winning playwright of Love! Valour! Compassion!, Master Class and Ragtime, died March 24, 2020, at 81. Looking back at 16 TheaterScene.net reviews and columns, from Mothers and Sons to Lincoln Center Theater's Ragtime. [more]

Mothers and Sons

March 22, 2014

Tyne Daly has made it a specialty playing unsympathetic and difficult women, for example her star turns as Mama Rose in Gypsy and Maria Callas in Terrence McNally’s Master Class. Now in a new McNally play, Mothers and Sons, she plays the bitter, angry, taciturn Katherine Gerard, the Andre’s mother of McNally’s earlier one act. [more]

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