AMERICAN THEATRE

Terrence McNally: 1938-2020

 made no insistence on his significance. If there were only one thing to be gleaned from the litany of speeches, interviews, and works of his I have read since his passing, it seems to be that for Terrence the most significant thing was theatre itself, not the building but the institution, and the charge of his life’s work to be worthy of it. For a young

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