Tag Archives: Terrence McNally
ALA’s ‘Love! Valour!’ Is Valiant, But Too Much of A Challenge
Andrews Living Arts makes a valiant effort to conquer the challenging Terrence McNally play Love! Valour! Compassion! but it proves more than they can handle.
GableStage’s It’s Only A Play Skewers And Honors The Craziness Of Theater Folks
GableStage has produced a version Terrrence McNally’s satire about theater, It’s Only A Play, that is funnier and has far more heart than the Broadway edition.
Report From New York: ‘It’s Only A Play’ High And Inside Baseball
Inside baseball describes the wry and witty It’s Only A Play, if you’re one of us who can name all six shows that earned Tony nominations for Kelli O’Hara. But if you’re one of the tens of millions who can’t, you aren’t going to get a tenth of the potential pleasure out of this overhauled, updated revival of Terrence McNally’s 1982 paean to the glorious narcissistic and divine misfits who populate theater.
Alliance Bathes Frankie and Johnny In Quirky Moonlight
The Alliance Theatre paints a lovely, off-beat love affair between two wounded souls in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
Emotional Ravages, Changing Attitudes To Homosexuality In GableStage’s Mothers And Sons
GableStage’s production of Terrence McNally’s script Mothers And Sons surpasses the Broadway premiere by depicting close-up the devastating pain when deep emotional wounds inflicted decades earlier are ripped open again. And it depicts the process of rending apart the psychic scab in unforgiving real time.
Report From New York: Mothers And Sons Charts Changes In How We View The AIDS Crisis
Terrence McNally’s drama Mothers and Sons examines the chasm that AIDS opened when troubled families were forced to face the sexuality of a loved one. But the play also shines a spotlight on that generational shift in perceptions that could only be chronicled by someone like the 75-year-old McNally who lived through that chapter of History.
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