Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.
Tony Kushner's other plays include A Bright Room Called Day; Hydriotaphia, or The Death of Dr. Brown; The Illusion, adapted from the play by Pierre Corneille; Slavs!; Homebody/Kabul; Caroline, or Change, a musical with composer Jeanine Tesori; The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures; and The Visit, adapted from the play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
His translations include S. Y. Ansky's The Dybbuk; Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Sezuan and Mother Courage and Her Children; and the libretto for Hans Krása and Adolf Hoffmeister's Brundibár, a children's opera for which he wrote a curtain-raiser, But the Giraffe!
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 honours, 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.
The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures
Tony Kushner's turbulent epic about a retired longshoreman who feels that the world has turned its back on everything he has fought for in life.
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The Visit, or The Old Lady Comes to Call
Dürrenmatt's visionary revenge play, one of the great achievements of modern German-language theatre, transported to mid-twentieth-century America by the acclaimed playwright Tony Kushner.
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By Tony Kushner By (composer) Jeanine TesoriThe book and lyrics of the extraordinary musical from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America.
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Angels in America
By Tony KushnerA magnificent, two-part epic drama set during the Reagan years in America - now recognised as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century.
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Lincoln
The Screenplay
By Tony KushnerA revealing drama about a great American president, written by a great American playwright. Nominated for 12 Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Homebody/Kabul
By Tony KushnerA devastating play about Afghanistan and its long, tortured relationship with the West, from the author of Angels in America.
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Death and Taxes: Hydriotaphia & Other Plays
By Tony KushnerA wide-ranging collection of work from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America.
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A Dybbuk and other tales of the supernatural
By Tony Kushner and Joachim NeugroschelThe classic Yiddish tale by S. Ansky, adapted by Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America, and Joachim Neugroschel.
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Widows
By Ariel Dorfman and Tony KushnerA smouldering political allegory about a political protest in a country ruled by a military junta. From the author of Death and the Maiden, written in collaboration with Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America.
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Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness (incl. Slavs!)
By Tony KushnerA collection of essays, poems, a prayer and a play from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America.
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A Bright Room Called Day
By Tony KushnerFrom the author of Angels in America, A Bright Room Called Day was Kushner's first major play. Written against the backdrop of Reagan's America, it is a powerful portrayal of individual resolution in the face of political catastrophe.
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The Illusion
By Pierre Corneille Adapted by Tony KushnerAn enchanting argument for the power of theatrical imagination over reality, The Illusion weaves obsession and caprice, romance and murder, fact and fiction, into an enticing exploration of the greatest illusion of all – love.
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