Terrence McNally, the gay playwright who won Tony Awards for Love! Valour! Compassion!, Master Class, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime, has died at age 81.
The cause was reported as complications from coronavirus, making him the first high-profile fatality of the disease. McNally grew up in Corpus Christi (after living briefly in Dallas), but was born in St.
Petersburg, Fla.; he died in Sarasota. His first big hit, 1975’s comedy The Ritz, was set in a gay bathhouse. That was followed by the