-Advertising in American Theatre magazine.
-Author signings.
Tony Kushner’s plays include Angels in America; Hydriotaphia, or
the Death of Dr. Brown; The Illusion, adapted from the play by
Pierre Cornelle; Slavs!; A Bright Room Called Day; Homebody/Kabul;
Caroline, or Change, a musical with composer Jeanine Tesori; and
The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with
a Key to the Scriptures. He wrote the screenplays for Mike
Nichols’s film of Angels in America and for Steven Spielberg’s
Munich and Lincoln. His books include The Art of Maurice Sendak:
1980 to the Present; Brundibar, with illustrations by Maurice
Sendak; and Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American
Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, co-edited with Alisa
Solomon.
Among many honors, Kushner is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize,
two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, two Evening Standard Awards, an
Olivier Award, an Emmy Award, two Oscar nominations, and the
Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award. He is a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2012, he was awarded a
National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama. He lives in
Manhattan with his husband, Mark Harris.
Angels in America has proved to be a watershed drama, the most
lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee William’s
The Glass Menagerie.” John Lahr, New Yorker
"A vast, miraculous play... provocative, witty and deeply
upsetting... a searching and radical rethinking of American
political drama." -Frank Rich, New York Times
"Daring and dazzling! The most ambitious America play of our time:
an epic that ranges from earth to heaven; focuses on politics, sex,
and religion; transports us to Washington, the Kremlin, the South
Bronx, Salt Lake City and Antarctica; deals with Jews, Mormons,
WASPs, blacks; switches between realism and fantasy, from the
tragedy of AIDS to the camp comedy of drag queens to the death or
at least absconding of God
Angels in America is the broadest,
deepest, most searching American play of our time." - Jack Kroll,
Newsweek
Few plays have captured the spirit of an age more powerfully than
Angels in America
and the passage of time has not clipped Angels’
wings.” Paul Taylor, Independent (London)
Something rare, dangerous, and harrowing
a roman candle hurled
into a drawing room.” Nicholas de Jongh, London Evening
Standard
Angels breaks all the rules to achieve the astonishing integrity
of its vision
It is a play that has remained utterly
of-the-moment.” Jeremy Gerard, Bloomberg
The most influential American play of the last two decades.”
Patrick Healy, New York Times
That Angels came so close to the burning heart of the Zeitgeist
left Kushner fearing he would never get there again. But in fact he
has been there so often that he seems to have passed right through
it
Angels, so much a cry in the dark about AIDS when it was
written, seems now to be as much about the Earth’s potentially
fatal illness as gay men’s.” Jesse Green, New York
The greatest American play of the waning years of the twentieth
century.” Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
 |
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
