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a play by Terrence McNally |
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as Katherine Gerard |
as Cal Porter |
David CallanderDre Jackson as Wil Ogden |
Robert Harris as Bud Ogden-Porter |
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Directed By Produced By | |||||
Ignoisco Miles Alexis Silvestre | |||||
Stage Managed By Asst Stage Managers | |||||
Amye Partain Katie Yoshihata & |
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Set & Lighting Design Costume Design |
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Derek Jones Jada Gosselin-Jones | |||||
Setting: A desirable apartment on Manhattan's Central Park West | |||||
Time: Blustery and very cold winter's day | |||||
There will be one 15-minute intermission |
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About the author
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.
About the play
THE STORY: At turns funny and powerful, MOTHERS AND SONS portrays a woman who pays an unexpected visit to the New York apartment of her late son’s partner, who is now married to another man and has a young son. Challenged to face how society has changed around her, generations collide as she revisits the past and begins to see the life her son might have led.
“Terrence McNally is a probing and enduring dramatist. A resonant elegy for a ravaged generation, MOTHERS AND SONS wears its significance defiantly.” —NY Times. “Eloquent, exceptionally timely and intensely resonant. A moving reflection on a changed America.” —Chicago Tribune. “Fantastic! McNally captures a moment of hope and promise…MOTHERS AND SONS feels like the sun on your face!” —NBC New York. “A masterpiece. Terrence McNally is one of the greatest contemporary playwrights the theatre world has yet produced. MOTHERS AND SONS is profound. Heartbreaking. Triumphant.” —NY Observer.
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