McNally's Bittersweet 'Golden Age' Fulfills Its Promise
When I first caught Terrence McNally’s “Golden Age,” during the Kennedy Center’s 2010 McNally festival, in Washington, D.C., it was tonally and thematically inconsistent but full of promise. The good news is that the promise has been fulfilled. This bittersweet comedy, set backstage in 1835 in Paris on the night of the premiere of Vincenzo Bellini’s final opera, “I Puritani,”…