Tony Kushner

...worked together since 1982 and have co-produced August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Eric Bogosian's Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Tony Kushner's Angels in America and the current Broadway hit, Keith Huff's A Steady Rain, co-starring...

In this article: The Shubert Organization, Frederick Zollo, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Broadway, Eric Bogosian, and Angels in America

...show, which also was an award-winning triumph on television, paved the way for such mammoth productions as "Angels in America" by Tony Kushner, "Rose Rage" (an adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry cycle) and "The Coast of Utopia" by Tom...

In this article: Roger Rees, William Shakespeare, Robin Colcord, What You Will, Judi Dench, Hamlet, Olivier Award, Royal Shakespeare Company, and Lord John Marbury

...at Round House Silver Spring - ★★★½ Although it was written in the early '90s and is set in the mid-1980s, many of the issues raised in Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic and intimate drama are as relevant and profound as ever. We're...

In this article: Blanche DuBois, Quiara Alegria Hudes, Tennessee Williams, Cate Blanchett, Mississippi, William Shakespeare, Robin McLeavy, Jersey Boys, and Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons

...of "Angels in America" to find out how they've approached their roles and what being in such a complicated, exhausting show feels like. Tony Kushner's two-play epic, subtitled "A Gay Fantasia on National Themes," has been extended through Nov....

In this article: Angels in America, AIDS, Roy Cohn, and Hamlet

...production made it a great dramatic ride. It's joined now by "Perestroika," with Michael Dove's cast incisively probing the angles of Tony Kushner's luscious ethical adventure. Forum, late of H Street NE, has taken up residence at the...

In this article: Roy Cohn, AIDS, and Angels in America

Kushner veers off the laugh track, delves into the political at Humanities Festival It was fitting that Tony Kushner accepted the 2009 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize on a Sunday morning, because the event honoring the "Angels in America"...

In this article: Barack Obama, Angels in America, Mormons, Catholic Church, Sarah Palin, and Steven Spielberg

...short works, "Tiny... Tuesday, November 3, 2009 One of the five plays in the new anthology of Tony Kushner's short works, "Tiny Kushner," now playing at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, is called "Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall...

In this article: Laura Bush, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Grand Inquisitor, The Brothers Karamazov, Iraq, Reactionary, Gulf War, and Susan Sarandon

...from major newspapers, including the Tribune, were first invited and then, at the last minute, asked by Kushner not to come, as he did not feel the play was ready. Rehearsals had begun without a completed script. On the other, his...

In this article: Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Steven Spielberg, NEW YORK, Anarchism, Civil War, Broadway, and Chicago

...what that place might be and how some of these sketches address distinct American issues. Then again, Kushner isn't interested in any strict inquiry. His writing is sharp and playful even as it stumbles. While the onstage evocation is...

In this article: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Zeitgeist, Iraq War, and Laura Bush

...don't ignore them but ignore the fact that they're carrying pages.' " Which may explain why Kushner sounds relaxed about the West Coast premiere of "Tiny Kushner" at the Rep. The show may be new, but it premiered at the Guthrie as part of...

In this article: New York, San Francisco Chronicle, Acting Company, New York Times Magazine, Queen Geraldine, and Laura Bush