Tyne Daly and Terrence McNally, the star and author of Master Class, recently sat down with Charlie Rose for an in-depth interview about Manhattan Theatre Club’s hit Broadway revival of the Tony-winning play. McNally cracks the host up when explaining how he came to cast Daly as Maria Callas, explaining that he asked himself, “Who had the balls to ...

A powerful role like Maria Callas deserves an equally powerful portrait—and Broadway.com resident artist Justin ‘Squigs’ Robertson has delivered in his salute to Tyne Daly and the cast of Master Class. Daly won raves as opera diva Callas in Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway revival of the Tony-winning play by Terrence McNally, and Squigs portrays her as a ...

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Current Role: A Broadway debut performance as Sophie De Palma, the talented yet awkward soprano who becomes Maria Callas’ “first victim” in Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway revival of Master Class.

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The role of Maria Callas in Master Class is irresistible to powerful stage actresses. Just ask Tyne Daly—and Patti LuPone! The former and present Callas in Terrence McNally’s Tony-winning play came face to face on July 20, when La LuPone came to see Daly in Manhattan Theatre Club’s hit revival of the play. After the performance, Patti ...

A high-powered pow-wow took place at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on July 12, when three original cast members of Terrence McNally’s Master Class came to see the acclaimed Broadway revival of the play. Zoe Caldwell and Audra McDonald, who won Tony Awards as Maria Callas and opera student Sharon Graham, respectively, were on hand to see Tyne Daly ...

Maria Callas is back on stage, as personified by Tony and Emmy winner Tyne Daly in Manhattan Theatre Club’s acclaimed revival of Terrence McNally’s Master Class. In a production helmed by opera director Stephen Wadsworth, Daly counsels a trio of young singers (including Broadway favorite Sierra Boggess) on the sacrifices necessary to achieve great art. Daly, her co-stars ...

Due to popular demand, Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway revival of Terrence McNally’s Master Class will get a second extension. The limited engagement, starring Tyne Daly as Maria Callas, has added two weeks to its run, with tickets now on sale through September 4. Stephen Wadsworth directs the production, which began previews on June 14 and opened on July ...

Tyne Daly has added another great role to a Broadway repertoire that already includes Mama Rose in Gypsy and Cynthia Nixon’s wisecracking mom in Rabbit Hole: opera diva Maria Callas in Terrence McNally's Master Class. A crowd of notables turned out on July 7 to see Daly & co. open the show at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J ...

Summertime openings are rare on Broadway, but the Fourth of July holiday week brought a biggie: Tyne Daly as Maria Callas in Manhattan Theatre Club's revival of Terrence McNally’s Tony-winning Master Class. Broadway.com sent Word of Mouth panelists Ameil, Emilie and Tony to the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre to see Daly conduct the title sessions with a ...

Nobody can say Sierra Boggess isn’t up for a challenge. After making her Broadway debut encased in fins and rolling footwear as Ariel in Disney’s The Little Mermaid, the golden-voiced actress headed to London to give an Olivier Award-nominated performance as unlucky-in-love Christine Daae in Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s much-scrutinized (and later rejiggered) sequel to ...