Terrence McNally

...Gerle. Tony - Mike McGowan "Master Class," Terrence McNally's 1995 homage to turbulent opera diva Maria Callas, retains its bite in Wendy C. Goldberg's vivid new staging at the Paper Mill Playhouse. Credit is largely due to the grand...

In this article: Maria Callas, World War II, Master Class, Warner Bros., Sean William Scott, Scarlett Johansson, John C. Reilly, Anne Hathaway, Brad Pitt, and Barbara Walsh

...she lectures and works with students. McNally based the work on the master classes Callas taught at New York's Juilliard School of Music in the 1970s, when her voice was broken and her career had faded. Decker first played the glamorous,...

In this article: Maria Callas, Master Class, University of Utah, and Juilliard School of Music

The Lisbon Traviata right The Lisbon Traviata is a 1989 play by Terrence McNally. It focuses on two of the playwright's favorite subjects, gay relationships and Maria Callas, and includes one of his most memorable characters, flamboyantly...

In this article: The Lisbon Traviata, Lucille Lortel, Nathan Lane, John Tillinger, Maria Callas, La traviata, and Columbia University

...now in its 4th edition. Callas at Juilliard (1988) focuses on her master classes given in New York in the 1970s and it inspired playwright Terrence McNally to write the Tony Award-winning play Master Class. Ardoin also collaborated with...

In this article: John Ardoin, Maria Callas, University of North Texas, The Dallas Morning News, New York, Martha Modl, John Alexander, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and The Times of London

RALEIGH -- A play about an aging opera star teaching singers might seem dry and dull -- unless you're Terrence McNally, whose "Master Class" uses the premise as springboard for a multilayered overview of art, fame and love. Playing...

In this article: Maria Callas, Aristotle Onassis, Master Class, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

...running at the Theatre Building. The story Katz tells has been told in many different ways (recall Terrence McNally's "Master Class," in which opera diva Maria Callas makes mincemeat of her voice students). But Katz, who was originally...

In this article: Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, Master Class, Tanglewood, Arnold Schoenberg, and Charles Nelson Reilly

...Best Play. In 1997, McNally stirred up a storm of controversy with Corpus Christi '', a modern day retelling of the story of Jesus' birth, ministry, and death in which both he and his disciples are portrayed as homosexual. In fact, the...

In this article: Corpus Christi, Jesus, AIDS, New York City, Fred Ebb, John Kander, and Christianity