Terrence McNally, Trailblazing Titan of American Theater, Dies From Coronavirus Complications at 81

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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.

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By Denise Petski

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.

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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.