Witness is a one-act play by Terrence McNally which opened Off-Broadway at the Gramercy Arts Theatre on November 21, 1968,[1] and closed on January 26, 1969.
[2] Witness premiered Off-Broadway at the Gramercy Arts Theatre in 1968.
It starred James Coco, Sally Kirkland, Richard Marr, and Joe Ponazecki, and was paired with another McNally play, Sweet Eros.
[3] Witness is one of McNally's earlier plays and received mixed reviews.
[4][5] The play depicts a man who is planning to assassinate the President of the United States from the window of a building, all the while keeping a gagged and bound victim as a witness to his sanity.