
The Lisbon Traviata (Kennedy Center)
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Terrence McNally’s brilliant contemporary drama 'The Lisbon Traviata' received a magnificent, star-powered regional revival presentation at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts during its celebrated 2010 theatrical series. The textually rich psychological tragedy centers on two opera-obsessed gay men inside a chic Manhattan apartment, tracking how their witty drawing-room banter and tactical analysis of rare Maria Callas recordings masks a devastating domestic crisis of infidelities, romantic fractures, and ultimate crime of passion. Directed with sharp comedic nuance by John Tillinger, the production starred Malcolm Gets and John Glover.

