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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mark Kennedy

Emerging playwrights get a boost in Terrence McNally's honor

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If it was show time at any of the city's myriad off-Broadway theaters, audience members could likely expect to see a theatrical giant in their midst — playwright Terrence McNally.

McNally had a five-night-a-week habit of stopping into small theaters far from the bright lights of Broadway to support emerging playwrights, recalled his husband, producer Tom Kirdahy.

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