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McNally has written numerous plays during his career. "Love, Valor, Compassion" won the Tony award for best play in 1995. He also won a Tony for best book for a musical in 1993 for "Kiss of the Spiderwoman." His other plays include "Lips Together, Teeth Apart" and "A Perfect Ganesh." McNally is currently working on the book for a musical version of E.L. Doctorow's novel "Ragtime...
Eight gay men on three summer weekends: a simple device for Terrence McNally's elegant meditations on manhood and friendship, maturity and mortality. This witty, generous, intimate epic (in a pristine off-Broadway production directed by Joe Mantello) follows McNally's Lips Together, Teeth Apart and A Perfect Ganesh. By now he has to be rated our most consistently satisfying playwright...
...Chitra Ganesh, a junior and co-chair of a group for gay, lesbian and bisexual minority students at Brown, says, "There are more gay freshmen than ever before. I've, noticed that there's been a ton of new faces at the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Association (LGBTA...
Success is the best revenge. McNally, who has achieved much, helps others as vice president of the Dramatists Guild; this fall he launches a playwriting department at the Juilliard School. For McNally, success means finding a unique voice that people have to hear. In Ganesh his subject is the universal caste system, the need to hate those of another shade or sexuality. If his characters judge too quickly or hold a grudge too long, it is because they are victims as well. Their hearts are bruised; India will open them to life...
...McNally knows how prejudice feels. As a human being, he knows how to feel prejudice. Ganesh sees the disease from both sides -- and from above, from the perch of accumulated wisdom, where forgiveness is possible. "There's a lot of hatred in our society," he says. "We're being devoured by it, and I think we have to look at it." In A Perfect Ganesh, McNally shows playgoers the heart where prejudice resides, and allows them to experience, remember and, above all, feel...