Selected Works: A Memoir in Plays

By Terrence McNally

"Terrence McNally is one of our most original and audacious dramatists, and one of our funniest."-- New Yorker Since his first play, And Things That Go Bump in the Night , which premiered in 1965, McNally has proven himself to be a trailblazing figure and unique voice in American theater, known for his exploration of gay themes and his chronicling of America's changing social attitudes over the past fifty years. His thirty-three plays, nine musicals, three operas, and seven scripts for film and television, are a testament to his astonishing commitment to writing. In Selected Plays , for the very first time, McNally collects a set of eight plays that he considers the most important of his oeuvre, including the Tony-nominated Mothers and Sons and the critically acclaimed And Away We Go , neither of which have been previously published. Introducing each play with a personal essay that recounts an anecdote or discusses an aspect of the play that proceeds it, McNally himself frames his own life in the theater. Selected Plays is a landmark publication, a memoir in plays from one of America's most highly regarded and best-loved playwrights.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802123570
• ISBN13: 9780802123572
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 704 Pages
• Weight: 2.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"