When Terrence McNally died of complications from COVID in early 2020, we lost one of our most prolific and consistent playwrights. Be his focus comedy, drama, musical, opera or something for the screen, McNally always had something interesting to say in the 59 plays, librettos or screenplays he wrote in the last 56 years of his life.

Among his comedies, “It’s Only a Play” stands as one of the funniest, despite rising from the embers of an unqualified 1978 failure called “Broadway, Broadway.” Over the course of the next 36 years, McNally returned to the script again and again, rewriting, restaging, refining and polishing it into something that eventually became one of Broadway’s biggest hits of 2014 and ’15.

Speaking of resilient survivors, Park Square Theatre is celebrating its 50th anni

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