Remembering Terrence McNally

Perhaps the most important comic voice in theater since Neil Simon, McNallywrote to amuse and awaken. Laughter for him was the greatest survivaltool ever invented. Humor was his shield against the homophobia heexperienced as a Catholic boy growing up in Texas, against the lossesthat rained down on him and his community during the worst days of theAIDS crisis and against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune —which in showbiz is even more outrageous than usual. – Los Angeles Tim