Chi uscì con Terrence McNally?

Terrence McNally (November 3, 1938 – March 24, 2020) was an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. Described as "the bard of American theater" and "one of the greatest contemporary playwrights the theater world has yet produced," McNally was the recipient of five Tony Awards. He won the Tony Award for Best Play for Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class and the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime, and received the 2019 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1996, and he also received the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011 and the Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2018, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the highest recognition of artistic merit in the United States. His other accolades included an Emmy Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, four Drama Desk Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, two Obie Awards, and three Hull-Warriner Awards.

His career spanned six decades, and his plays, musicals, and operas were routinely performed all over the world. He also wrote screenplays, teleplays, and a memoir. Active in the regional and off-Broadway theatre movements as well as on Broadway, he was one of the few playwrights of his generation to have successfully passed from the avant-garde to mainstream acclaim. His work centered on the difficulties of and urgent need for human connection. He was vice-president of the Council of the Dramatists Guild from 1981 to 2001.

He died of complications from COVID-19 on March 24, 2020, at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Florida.

Edward Franklin Albee III (Washington, 12 marzo 1928 – Montauk, 16 settembre 2016) è stato un drammaturgo statunitense.

Vincitore di tre Premi Pulitzer e considerato tra i maggiori autori del teatro americano, Albee ha svolto un ruolo chiave nell'introdurre negli Stati Uniti le nuove tendenze drammatiche europee della seconda metà del XX secolo, e in particolare le concezioni del teatro dell'assurdo. La sua opera più nota è Chi ha paura di Virginia Woolf? (1962), che gli meritò fama internazionale grazie all'omonimo adattamento cinematografico del 1966, diretto da Mike Nichols. È stato candidato tre volte al Premio Nobel per la letteratura, rispettivamente nel 1969, nel 1971 e nel 1972.