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Terrence McNally (1938–2020): Theater Changes Hearts

October 31, 2026

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]

Editor’s Notes: The 2014 Tony Season Heats Up

May 16, 2014

his year's Tony Awards will go to the music hall murder mystery, A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder (Best Musical) and All the Way, Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Schenkkan's LBJ play, All the Way (Best Play). [more]

The Substance of Fire

May 5, 2014

Time has caught up with Jon Robin Baitz’s 1991 play and bankrupting one’s company over issues of integrity no longer seems quite admirable. Jon Robin Baitz writes literate, thoughtful plays like his 2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist, Other Desert Cities. However, like the revival last fall of his earliest play The Film Society showed, plays may date badly or their attitudes become artifacts of another generation. [more]