Cindy Gold and Jeff Parker in Northlight Theatre’s 2016 production of Mothers and Sons by Terrence McNally. Photograph: Michael Brosilow I’ve mentioned here and there over the years that I wrote one of my biggest papers in college—the culmination of a four-semester honors humanities megacourse—on representations of AIDS in theater. That meant I read a lot of seminal ’80s and ’90s plays long before I got a chance to see them. Some of them I’ve still never seen staged.
This article packs a lot of insight into McNally's life and themes of his work. I feel like such an idiot never hearing that Albee and McNally were romantically involved. That quote from McNally that it wasn't going to work because "it's just too much work to live that way" really packs a wallop and makes one realize how courageous McNally was to live and work out of the closet during that time.
This article packs a lot of insight into McNally's life and themes of his work. I feel like such an idiot never hearing that Albee and McNally were romantically involved. That quote from McNally that it wasn't going to work because "it's just too much work to live that way" really packs a wallop and makes one realize how courageous McNally was to live and work out of the closet during that time.