Love, sexuality and chosen communities are the recurring subjects of Terrence McNally’s plays and musicals. Love! Valour! Compassion! brings eight gay men together at a country house over several holiday weekends, while Master Class imagines Maria Callas teaching young singers and confronting her own memories of performance and sacrifice. Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune follows two co-workers after a night together as one reaches for intimacy and the other resists it. McNally also wrote books for musicals including Ragtime and Kiss of the Spider Woman. His drama is conversational, funny and emotionally direct. The catalogue is best browsed alongside American theatre, LGBTQ+ drama, relationship plays and musical theatre. Read more Less