Four-time Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally died Tuesday at age 81 of complications from the novel coronavirus.

McNally, a lung cancer survivor who suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, died at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Florida.

He is best known for winning consecutive Tony Awards in 1995 for “Love! Valour! Compassion!” and 1996 for “Master Class," as well as his scripts for "Kiss of the Spider Woman" and "Ragtime."

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In 2019, McNally won a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre.

In addition to Broadway, he also adapted his play "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune" into a 1991 film starring Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer, which led to a Golden Globe nomination for Pfeiffer.

The Columbia University graduate's first play hit the Great White Way in 1965: “And Things That Go Bump in the Night."

McNally is survived by husband Tom Kirdahy, a Tony-winning theater producer.