Playwright Terrence McNally dead of coronavirus complications at 81

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.

By Ted Johnson

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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.

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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.

Tony Award-winning playwright and screenwriter Terrence McNally has died from complications linked to the coronavirus.

Playwright Terrence McNally has died from coronavirus complications at the age of 81.

Terrence McNally, the admired playwright and librettist who received five Tony Awards while bringing his perspective of the world to such productions as Kiss of the Spider-Woman, Master Class, Ragtime and Love! Valour! Compassion!, has died. He was 81. McNally died Tuesday at a hospital in Sarasota, Florida, due to

The world of entertainment has lost a legend. On Tuesday, news broke that the Tony Award-winning playwright and screenwriter, Terrence McNally, passed away after suffering from complications due to Coronavirus.

Rest in peace, Terrence McNally. 

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.

By Greg Evans

Terrence McNally, the playwright behind “Master Class” and “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune,” has died at the age of 81 of complications from coronavirus. The four-time Tony Award winner was a lung cancer survivor who lived with chronic COPD. He died on Tuesday at the Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Florida.

Terrence McNally, who is a four time Tony Award winner as a playwright and librettist, has passed away at the age of 81 from complications from COVID-19, aka the coronavirus.

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