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Conversations with Terrence McNally

Author : Raymond-Jean Frontain
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496843258
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Terrence McNally written by Raymond-Jean Frontain and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arriving in New York at the tail end of what has been termed the “Golden Age” of Broadway and the start of the Off-Broadway theater movement, Terrence McNally (1938–2020) first established himself as a dramatist of the absurd and a biting social critic. He quickly recognized, however, that one is more likely to change people’s minds by first changing their hearts, and—in outrageous farces like The Ritz and It’s Only a Play—began using humor more broadly to challenge social biases. By the mid-1980s, as the emerging AIDS pandemic called into question America’s treatment of persons isolated by suffering and sickness, he became the theater’s great poet of compassion, dramatizing the urgent need of human connection and the consequences when such connections do not take place. Conversations with Terrence McNally collects nineteen interviews with the celebrated playwright. In these interviews, one hears McNally reflect on theater as the most collaborative of the arts, the economic pressures that drive the theater industry, the unique values of music and dance, and the changes in American theater over McNally’s fifty-plus year career. The winner of four competitive Tony Awards as the author of the Best Play (Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class) and author of the book for the Best Musical (Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime), McNally holds the distinction of being one of the few writers for the American theater who excelled in straight drama as well as musical comedy. In addition, his canon extends to opera; his collaboration with composer Jake Heggie, Dead Man Walking, has proven the most successful new American opera of the last twenty-five years.

Conversations with Terrence McNally

Author : Raymond-Jean Frontain
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496843231
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Terrence McNally written by Raymond-Jean Frontain and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2023-01-27 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arriving in New York at the tail end of what has been termed the “Golden Age” of Broadway and the start of the Off-Broadway theater movement, Terrence McNally (1938–2020) first established himself as a dramatist of the absurd and a biting social critic. He quickly recognized, however, that one is more likely to change people’s minds by first changing their hearts, and—in outrageous farces like The Ritz and It’s Only a Play—began using humor more broadly to challenge social biases. By the mid-1980s, as the emerging AIDS pandemic called into question America’s treatment of persons isolated by suffering and sickness, he became the theater’s great poet of compassion, dramatizing the urgent need of human connection and the consequences when such connections do not take place. Conversations with Terrence McNally collects nineteen interviews with the celebrated playwright. In these interviews, one hears McNally reflect on theater as the most collaborative of the arts, the economic pressures that drive the theater industry, the unique values of music and dance, and the changes in American theater over McNally’s fifty-plus year career. The winner of four competitive Tony Awards as the author of the Best Play (Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class) and author of the book for the Best Musical (Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime), McNally holds the distinction of being one of the few writers for the American theater who excelled in straight drama as well as musical comedy. In addition, his canon extends to opera; his collaboration with composer Jake Heggie, Dead Man Walking, has proven the most successful new American opera of the last twenty-five years.

The Theater of Terrence McNally

Author : Peter Wolfe
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786474955
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Theater of Terrence McNally written by Peter Wolfe and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first book-length work on Terrence McNally shows how his decades in the theater have refined his thoughts on subjects like growing up gay in mannish, homophobic Texas, Shakespeare's legacy in contemporary drama, and the life-giving power of forgiveness. McNally believes that the ability to forgive--a challenge to even the most high-minded--confirms our humanity because the wrongs done to us usually don't deserve to be forgiven. The author shows how McNally's impeccable timing, his instinct for a good laugh line, and his preference for physical sensation and character over plot helps him reveal both what's important to his people and why his people are important. These revelations can shake up audiences while providing a great evening at the theater.

Terrence McNally

Author : Toby Silverman Zinman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135596050
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Terrence McNally written by Toby Silverman Zinman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays and interviews is the first book about the drama of American playwright Terrence McNally; it examines his career to date (30-plus years), focusing particularly on the two plays for which McNally won Tony Awards for Best Play of 1995, Love! Valour! Compassion!, and Best Play of 1996, Master Class. Toby Zinman, a distinguished scholar and critic, has invited none respected authorities to write about McNally's work, and has included records of the long conversations she had with the playwright about his work, his love of opera, his ideas about acting and education, and life in general. Also included are two interviews she conducted with two of his leading actors: one with the legendary Zoe Caldwell, who played the even more legendary Maria Callas in Master Class, a performance that earned her the Tony Award for Best Actress in 1996, a role McNally wrote for her, and another with the great American comic actor, Nathan Lane, whom McNally considers his foremost interpreter. The collection moves chronologically, beginning with Howard Stein's essay on the promise of the plays of the first decade, through to Cary Mazer's essay on the diva in Master Class, a play about Maria Callas' master classes at Juilliard; that essay is preceded by an essay on those famous master classes by John Ardoin, the world's foremost authority on Maria Callas. In between there are two essays debating McNally's position as a gay playwright, one by John Clum and one by Steven Drukman, both centering on the firestorm of controversy generated by Love! Valour! Compassion! In addition, there is an essay on The Lisbon Traviata by Sam Abel which discusses the play's much-revised conclusion (to murder or not to murder) and another on McNally's screenplays of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, and The Ritz, by Helen Buttel, a film critic. This is followed by Stephen Watt's examination of McNally as a postmodernist, using Lips Together, Teeth Apart as his focus, and Benilde Montgomery's essay on Indian myth as it informs McNally's play (soon to be a film) A Perfect Ganesh The volume also includes in its introduction the latest information on McNally's newest projects, an extensive bibliography, and a chronology of the playwright's career.

Dedication

Author : Terrence McNally
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 0822221160
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Dedication written by Terrence McNally and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Eric Bentley's Brecht Memoir, as well as on extensive personal interviews with the writer himself, Marowitz has created an entertaining story that is simultaneously funny, perplexing and disturbing. Tossing in small bits of insight into both men THE AGONY & THE AGONY is proof, once and for all, that hard work, grit and determination almost compensate for a total lack of talent. --Jill Silver (the playwright's mother).

Conversations with Edward Albee

Author : Edward Albee
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9780878053421
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Edward Albee written by Edward Albee and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1988 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influential American playwright discusses his work, the nature of art, the role of the unconscious, American culture, and the theater.

Conversations with Neil Simon

Author : Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496822919
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Neil Simon written by Jackson R. Bryer and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neil Simon (1927–2018) began as a writer for some of the leading comedians of the day—including Jackie Gleason, Red Buttons, Phil Silvers, and Jerry Lewis—and he wrote for fabled television programs alongside a group of writers that included Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart, Michael Stewart, and Sid Caesar. After television, Simon embarked on a playwriting career. In the next four decades he saw twenty-eight of his plays and five musicals produced on Broadway. Thirteen of those plays and three of the musicals ran for more than five hundred performances. He was even more widely known for his screenplays—some twenty-five in all. Yet, despite this success, it was not until his BB Trilogy—Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, and Broadway Bound—that critics and scholars began to take Simon seriously as a literary figure. This change in perspective culminated in 1991 when his play Lost in Yonkers won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In the twenty-two interviews included in Conversations with Neil Simon, Simon talks candidly about what it was like to write commercially successful plays that were dismissed by critics and scholars. He also speaks at length about the differences between writing for television, for the stage, and for film. He speaks openly and often revealingly about his relationships with, among many others, Mike Nichols, Walter Matthau, Sid Caesar, and Jack Lemmon. Above all, these interviews reveal Neil Simon as a writer who thought long and intelligently about creating for stage, film, and television, and about dealing with serious subjects in a comic mode. In so doing, Conversations with Neil Simon compels us to recognize Neil Simon’s genius.

Terrence McNally

Author : Terrence McNally
Publisher : Smith & Kraus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Terrence McNally written by Terrence McNally and published by Smith & Kraus. This book was released on 1994 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains fifteen short plays by playwright Terrence McNally.

Some Men

Author : Terrence McNally
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802144492
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book Some Men written by Terrence McNally and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Some Men, a multi-generational journey through gay life in America, McNally uses interwoven vignettes to revisit the same characters at different points in their lives, addressing such issues as coming out, marriage, adoption, the military and the AIDS crisis.

Terrence McNally

Author : Terrence McNally
Publisher : Smith & Kraus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terrence McNally written by Terrence McNally and published by Smith & Kraus. This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Some Men

Author : Terrence McNally
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822222453
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book Some Men written by Terrence McNally and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: SOME MEN is Tony Award-winner Terrence McNally at his best. Often funny and sometimes touching, SOME MEN looks at same-sex life and love against a background of some of the events that shaped the last century.

And Away We Go

Author : Terrence McNally
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822231360
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book And Away We Go written by Terrence McNally and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Times change, but life in the theatre remains the same: chaotic, sometimes brutal, but often euphoric, too. AND AWAY WE GO jumps through time from backstage in ancient Athens to a rehearsal at the Globe, from Versailles’ Royal Theatre to the first reading of a new play by Chekhov—with an unlikely stop in Coral Gables and the American premiere of Waiting for Godot along the way.

It's Only a Play

Author : Terrence McNally
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822205821
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book It's Only a Play written by Terrence McNally and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1992 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: It's the opening night of The Golden Egg on Broadway, and the wealthy producer (Julia Budder) is throwing a lavish party in her lavish Manhattan townhouse. Downstairs the celebrities are pouring in, but the real action is upstairs

Master Class

Author : Terrence McNally
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822215219
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Master Class written by Terrence McNally and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Maria Callas is teaching a master class in front of an audience (us). She's glamorous, commanding, larger than life--and drop-dead funny. An accompanist sits at the piano. Callas' first victim is Sophie, a ridiculous, overly-perky soprano, dre

A Man of Much Importance

Author : Chris Bryne
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493053795
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book A Man of Much Importance written by Chris Bryne and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-07-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly sixty years, playwright Terrence McNally has been a force in American theater. His work, encompassing plays, musicals, teleplays, and opera, has been performed around the world. McNally is the consummate artist, delving into the human soul, fearlessly examining both the lighter and darker aspects of existence in an uncertain—and sometimes frightening—world. This book looks at McNally's life and work against the backdrop of a dynamic theatrical culture, tracing the ways in which an artist grows and responds to reality. Starting in the Off-Off-Broadway movement in the 1960s, McNally's work has continually reflected a changing culture, from opposition to the Vietnam War through the emergence of AIDS and the gay rights movement. Based on extensive interviews with McNally, it also features interviews with many of the artists—actors, designers, producers—with whom he’s collaborated, including Nathan Lane, Chita Rivera, Angela Lansbury, Audra McDonald, Swoosie Kurtz, John Glover, Joe Mantello, Arin Arbus, Paul Libin, and many more. A Man of Much Importance presents a warm and affectionate look at the people and the practices that are unique to theater and performing arts. It goes beyond a traditional biography and illuminates the evolution of anartist—not merely as an individual creative force but also within the context of a collaborative, interdependent community of artists who inspire one another and give voice and dimension to the creative process.

Bad Habits

Author : Terrence McNally
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822214359
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Bad Habits written by Terrence McNally and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1990 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: In the first play, DUNELAWN, we are in an expensive retreat for the unhappily married, where the wheel-chaired director, Dr. Pepper, dispenses a definitely unique sort of marital guidance. His theory includes complete indulgence in such

A Perfect Ganesh

Author : Terrence McNally
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822213796
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book A Perfect Ganesh written by Terrence McNally and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1994 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Two outwardly unremarkable, middle-aged lady friends throw themselves into a rousing tour of India, each one having her own secret dreams of what the fabled land of intoxicating opposites will do for the suffering she hides within ..."--Page 4 of cover.