Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Zachary Quinton to honor Terrence McNally with livestream of ‘Lips Together, Teeth Apart’

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Terrence McNally, the openly gay, multiple-Tony and Emmy Award-winning playwright, died at age 81 on Tuesday, March 24 in Sarasota, Fla., due to complications from the coronavirus, or COVID-19.

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Terrence McNally: Todd Franson

Gone, but never forgotten. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread around the globe, some celebrities have joined the thousands who have lost their lives to the novel illness.

Actors Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Zachary Quinto are teaming up to stage a virtual reading of Terrence Mcnally play Lips Together, Teeth Apart to raise coronavirus relief funds.

Terrence McNally, a towering force in modern American theater who died on March 24 of complications from the coronavirus, had a career that spanned five decades. He wrote farces, dramas and books for musicals.

It was announced on Tuesday that Broadway.com, along with producers Eric Kuhn and Justin Mikita, will present a live reading of Terrence McNally's 1991 play Lips Together, Teeth Apart, set for April 6. The live stream will benefit the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS’ COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund in honor of McNally, who died March 24 due to complications from the novel coronavirus.

By Greg Evans

The coronavirus continues to devastate Broadway. Two highly anticipated plays — “Hangmen” and the revival of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” — have been scuttled.

NEW YORK -- Terrence McNally, one of America’s great playwrights whose prolific career included winning Tony Awards for the plays "Love! Valour! Compassion!" and "Master Class" and the musicals "Ragtime" and "Kiss of the Spider Woman," has died of complications from the coronavirus. He was 81.

The theatre community, already hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic, has been dealt a painful blow with the news that Terrence McNally, the 4-time Tony winning playwright whose work portrayed a rich range of human emotional experience and broke barriers in its depiction of gay life, has succumbed to complications from COVID-19 at the age of 81.

Actors Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jason Alexander have saluted celebrated playwright Terrence McNally online following his death at the age of 81.

Terrence McNally, one of America’s great playwrights whose prolific career included winning Tony Awards for the plays “Love! Valour! Compassion!” and “Master Class” and the musicals “Ragtime” and “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” has died of complications from the coronavirus. He was 81.

Hollywood rallied together in mourning Terrence McNally on Tuesday afternoon, following the news that the 81-year-old playwright had died at a hospital in Sarasota, Florida. McNally died due to complications from COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.