The premier American playwright of this decade speaks out about art, sexuality, and social justice
An ideal introduction to studying the text in performance and production, including coverage of performance history, staging issues and possibilities and its reception and interpretation by audiences as well as critics.
Tony Kushner is that rarity of rarities: a writer who has the promise to do both.” -New York Times This new edition of Tony Kushner's masterpiece is published with the author's recent changes and a new introduction in celebration of the ...
This book guides readers through Kushner's influences and creations to map the importance of his work in postmodern literary and cultural landscapes.
Expanded from a popular Slate cover story and built from nearly 250 interviews, The World Only Spins Forward is both a rollicking theater saga and an uplifting testament to one of the great works of American art of the past century, from ...
A drama set in the last days of Weimar Germany examines a group of left-wing activists who realize they are losing to the Nazis
... Bosoms and Neglect, Chaucer in Rome, Cop-Out, A Few Stout Individuals, Four BaboonsAdoring the Sun, A Free Man ofColor, Gardenia, The House ofBlue Leaves, Lake Hollywood, Landscape ofthe Body, Lydie Breeze, Marco Polo Sings a Solo, ...
"Why Get Out of Bed" in Tony Kushner in Conversation. Ed. Robert Vorlicky. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1998. 245-254. Smyth, Edmund J. "Introduction" Postmodernism and Contemporary Fiction. Ed. E. J. Smyth. London: B.T.Batsford,1991.
Jones, Susan (1998), 'Tony Kushner's Angels', in Robert Vorlicky (ed.), Tony Kushner in Conversation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 157–169. Krasner, David (2006), 'Stonewall, “Constant Historical Progress,” and Angels in ...
______, “The Secrets of Angels” (as told to William Harris), New York Times, March 27, 1994, p. H5. , “Why We Must Fight,” Stage Directions, June-July 1997, p. 7. John Lahr, “Angels on Broadway,” New Yorker, May 31, 1993, p. 137. Lewis ...
And the genius of Lincoln, finally, lies in its vision of politics as a noble, sometimes clumsy dialectic of the exalted and the mundane…And Mr. Kushner, whose love of passionate, exhaustive disputation is unmatched in the modern theater, ...