Playwright Terrence McNally dead of coronavirus complications at 81
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nypost.comTerrence McNally, a prolific playwright whose love of opera and compassion for human frailties wove their way into many of his works, died March 24 from complications of the coronavirus in a Sarasota, Fla., hospital.
He was 81, and had lived with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for some time. For a while, it seemed as if there were hardly a Broadway season that didn’t have a McNally show running.
Starting with 1965’s “And Things That Go Bump in the Night,” the St. Petersburg, Fla., native went on to win four Tony Awards, two of them back to back: For 1995’s comedy drama “Love!
Valour! Compassion!” and the following year’s “Master Class,” in which Audra McDonald starred as a tormented student of a fictionalized Maria Callas.
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