Editor's Pick: Terrence McNally - 4/1 & 4/2 @ Theodore Roosevelt Historical Site
Terrence McNally
April 1, 7pm, Reading & Performance for BUA fundraiser
Theodore Roosevelt Historical Site, $125
April 2, 11am, master class: Donald Savage Theater @ Buff State College, free
Terrence McNally, four-time Tony Award-winning playwright, will visit Buffalo on April 1 and 2, 2016 as a guest of Buffalo United Artists (BUA), the Dramatists Guild Fund, the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Historic Site, and Just Buffalo Literary Center. During his stay, McNally, one the most highly regarded and widely celebrated playwrights in the world today will participate in two events to support theater in Western New York.
McNally will read from his new book, Selected Works, A Memoir in Plays (Grove Press 2015), at the Theodore Roosevelt Site on Friday, April 1, 2016, at 7 p.m. The doors open at 6 p.m., allowing patrons to tour the historic site. McNally’s readings will be interspersed with a performance of scenes and speeches from his plays by Buffalo actors. This event will benefit BUA, which has a longstanding relationship with the playwright and his work.
On Saturday, April 2nd, McNally and his husband, Broadway producer Tom Kirdahy (The Visit; It’s Only a Play; White Rabbit, Red Rabbit) will participate in a free master class supported by the Dramatists Guild Fund at Buffalo State College at 11 a.m.
With a career spanning five decades, McNally is among the nation’s most eminent playwrights. He is the author of such critically acclaimed plays as Love! Valour! Compassion!; Master Class; Lips Together Teeth Apart; The Lisbon Traviata; and Mothers and Sons, as well as the librettos for the musicals Ragtime, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Full Monty, A Man of No Importance, and The Visit. He has also written the librettos for two operas: Dead Man Walking and Great Scott.
McNally is the recipient of the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1996. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, three Hull-Warriner Awards for Best Play, three Lucille Lortel Awards, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was honored with an Emmy Award for his television play, Andre’s Mother. >AV STAFF
