“Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.”
Terrence McNally
(November 3, 1938-2020)
Sign: Scorpio
Gay American playwright whose musicals like Love! Valour! Compassion! (1994), Kiss of the Spider Woman (1992), and Ragtime (1996), enact a vision of theatre whereby social divisions such as gender, race, or sexual orientation are transcended.
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