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Terrence McNally, Honored American Playwright, Has Died Of Coronavirus

The five-time Tony Award winner whose work spanned some four dozen plays and musicals died Tuesday at age 81 due to complications related to COVID-19.
A portrait of playwright Terrence McNally, taken in his home in New York City on March 2. McNally died of complications related to coronavirus on Tuesday.

Updated at 11:31 p.m. ET

The Tony Award-winning American playwright Terrence McNally has died of complications related to COVID-19. He died Tuesday at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Fla. at age 81. McNally was a lung cancer survivor who

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