{"product_id":"conversations-with-terrence-mcnally-paperback","title":"Conversations with Terrence McNally - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRaymond-Jean Frontain\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArriving in New York at the tail end of what has been termed the \"Golden Age\" of Broadway and the start of the Off-Broadway theater movement, Terrence McNally (1938-2020) first established himself as a dramatist of the absurd and a biting social critic. He quickly recognized, however, that one is more likely to change people's minds by first changing their hearts, and--in outrageous farces like \u003ci\u003eThe Ritz\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIt's Only a Play\u003c\/i\u003e--began using humor more broadly to challenge social biases. By the mid-1980s, as the emerging AIDS pandemic called into question America's treatment of persons isolated by suffering and sickness, he became the theater's great poet of compassion, dramatizing the urgent need of human connection and the consequences when such connections do not take place. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eConversations with Terrence McNally\u003c\/i\u003e collects nineteen interviews with the celebrated playwright. In these interviews, one hears McNally reflect on theater as the most collaborative of the arts, the economic pressures that drive the theater industry, the unique values of music and dance, and the changes in American theater over McNally's fifty-plus year career. The winner of four competitive Tony Awards as the author of the Best Play (\u003ci\u003eLove! Valour! Compassion!\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMaster Class\u003c\/i\u003e) and author of the book for the Best Musical (\u003ci\u003eKiss of the Spider Woman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRagtime\u003c\/i\u003e), McNally holds the distinction of being one of the few writers for the American theater who excelled in straight drama as well as musical comedy. In addition, his canon extends to opera; his collaboration with composer Jake Heggie, \u003ci\u003eDead Man Walking\u003c\/i\u003e, has proven the most successful new American opera of the last twenty-five years.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRaymond-Jean Frontain\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent scholar who has published eight books and over one hundred scholarly articles on the Bible as literature, gay literature, Renaissance poetry, the Indian novel, and modern drama. His previous works on Terrence McNally include \u003ci\u003eThe Theater of Terrence McNally: Something about Grace\u003c\/i\u003e and an edition of McNally's writings about theater, \u003ci\u003eMuse of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 27, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183649112313,"sku":"9781496843227","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Wmx5aDk3SFNPajZVZlRkQWNuSCs4dz09.webp?v=1767776707","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/conversations-with-terrence-mcnally-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}