Diversionary Theatre

December 16th
7:00pm

4545 Park Blvd,
San Diego, CA 92116

Love! Valour! Compassion!
by Terrence McNally

Winner of the 1995 Tony Award for Best Play!

Join us for our next installment of Gay Play Tuesdays on December 16th at 7pm, when we will read Love! Valour! Compassion! by Terrence McNally (1995).

A group of gay New Yorkers – including longtime friends Buzz Hauser, an HIV-positive Broadway musical enthusiast; John Jeckyll, a dry-witted British composer; and Gregory Mitchell, a prominent Broadway choreographer – spend summer weekends together at a lakeside house in upstate New York. As the season progresses and secrets begin to surface, the complex relationships within the group are sometimes strained and sometimes strengthened. As The New Yorker published in 1995, “in this beautifully written work McNally…presents humbling evidence of what human love is and can be.”

Terrence McNally (1938 – 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. 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.

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