{"product_id":"three-plays-by-terrence-mcnally-isbn-9780452264250","title":"Three Plays by Terrence Mcnally","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Terrence McNally is one of our most original and audacious dramatists and one of our funniest.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e These three stunning plays are a testament to the extraordinary talent and comedic brilliance of Terrence McNally. All produced off-Broadway to great acclaim, his most recent works are gathered here for the first time in a unique collection of drama, romance, and comedy. \u003ci\u003eThe Lisbon Traviata\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerfully moving tragicomedy about a crumbling homosexual marriage. And in \u003ci\u003eFrankie and Johnnie in the Clair de Lune\u003c\/i\u003e, a man and a woman, “not young, not old, no great beauties, either one,” come together in a fresh and witty display of emotional fireworks. McNally himself describes the final piece, the bitingly honest and uproariously funny \u003ci\u003eIt’s Only a Play\u003c\/i\u003e, as his “attempt to describe exactly what I was like to work in Broadway in the 1980s.” These three unforgettable works, starkly individual yet all charged with brilliant wit and searing intimacy, dazzle us with McNally’s wisdom, compassion, and extraordinary brand of comic genius.\u003cb\u003eThis Lisbon Traviata\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “I don’t know when I have heard such scaldingly intimate dialogue in the New York theater.”—\u003cb\u003eRex Reed, \u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A savagely amusing and empathetic study of two men whose lives have been lost in opera.”—\u003cb\u003eFrank Rich, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A highly entertaining, amusing, touching, compelling play.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrankie and Johnnie in the Clair de Lune\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A very sweet, extraordinarily funny, romantic, ribald comedy.”—\u003cb\u003eClive Barnes, \u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Fresh, illuminating… the most serious play yet about intimacy in the age of AIDS.”—\u003cb\u003eFrank Rich,\u003ci\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Among the best plays he has written.”—\u003cb\u003eEdith Oliver, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIt’s Only a Play\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Charged with an energy that leaps and zigzags from the merely frantic to the hysterical.”—\u003cb\u003eBrendan Gill, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Frequently uproarious!”—\u003cb\u003eFrank Rich, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eTerrence McNally\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of numerous plays, including \u003cb\u003eLove! Valour! Compassion!\u003c\/b\u003e (winner of the Tony Award for best play), \u003cb\u003eThe Ritz\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eFrankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune\u003c\/b\u003e, which was made into a feature film starring Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer, and the books for the musicals \u003cb\u003eThe Rink\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eKiss of the Spider Woman\u003c\/b\u003e (winner of the Tony Award for the best book of a musical).  Other successes include \u003cb\u003eLips Together\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eTeeth Apart\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Lisbon Traviata\u003c\/b\u003e.  McNally has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  He also serves as vice president for the Dramatists Guild, the national orgainzation of playwrights, composers, and lyricists.  He lives in New York City.","brand":"Plume","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303153291493,"sku":"NP9780452264250","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780452264250.jpg?v=1767742576","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/three-plays-by-terrence-mcnally-isbn-9780452264250","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}