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Terrence McNally: dramaturgist of a gay century.(ARTIST'S PROFILE)(Interview)

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide | January 1, 2007 | Copyright

Terrence McNally doesn't consider himself an activist playwright, but he does believe that in the scheme of things "All theatre is political." The winner of four Tony Awards, McNally, at 67, is still a man of the theater in his time, on the active duty list of out gay American dramatists. At last season's Tony Awards, actor David Hyde Pierce quoted the playwright's credo: "If a play isn't worth dying for, it isn't worth writing."

McNally's theatrical range has the tenacity and breadth to invoke everything from the legendary specter of Maria Callas (Master Class) or Hindu…

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