A five-time Tony Award recipient who grew up in Texas, playwright Terrence McNally (1938-2020) was a defining force in American theatre for six decades through plays such as Master Class, Frankie & Johnny in the Claire de Lune, and Love! Valour! Compassion! <\/p>\n
As a continuation of McNally\u2019s legacy of championing bold new voices, the Terrence McNally Foundation – in association with Rattlestick Theater – presents a festival of five new play readings directed and performed by leading talent from Austin and around the country.<\/p>\n
The weekend will include an academic symposium at UT\u2019s Harry Ransom Center, where the legacy of “the bard of American theater\u201d lives on through his archived papers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A five-time Tony Award recipient who grew up in Texas, playwright Terrence McNally (1938-2020) was a defining force…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132033,132034,132035,132,134,133,577,132036,132037,132038,5351,2509],"class_list":["post-373216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-132033","tag-132034","tag-132035","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-festivals","tag-occurrence202701291930","tag-occurrence202701301930","tag-occurrence202701311400","tag-performing-arts","tag-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}