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Tony Kushner

    July 16, 1956

    Tony Kushner is an American playwright whose works often grapple with complex social and political themes. His writing is characterized by its ambitious scope, epic scale, and profound human insight. Kushner fearlessly explores ethical dilemmas and moral ambiguities, prompting readers and audiences to consider the intricacies of the human experience. His distinctive voice and literary prowess mark him as a significant figure in contemporary drama.

    Tony Kushner
    Death & Taxes Hydriotaphia & Other Plays
    Brundibar
    Tony Kushner in Conversation
    Angels in America
    Angels in America. Pt.2
    Stuck Rubber Baby
    • Gus Marcantonio, a retired longshoreman, summons his adult children home to the family's Brooklyn brownstone to discuss his recent decision to commit suicide. With his trademark mix of soaring intellect, searing emotion, and biting wit, legendary playwright Tony Kushner unfurls an epic tale of revolution, radicalism, family, love, sex, politics, real estate, unions and debts both unpaid and unpayable. With sweeping themes as hefty as its title, "IHo" (as it has been nicknamed) explores the dense and vexing issues that stem from the betrayal of a failed ideology and the challenges of family connectedness. This cerebral mammoth of a play asks what is left when the long-held belief systems that construct and inform one's identity prove to be empty.

      The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures2023
    • Journeys from the Abyss

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      This is the first study to place Jewish refugee movementsfrom Nazism into a wider framework of global forced migration from the latenineteenth through to the twenty first century.

      Journeys from the Abyss2017
    • A beautiful clothbound edition of a beloved classic to celebrate the 100th birthday of America s greatest playwright, with a sweeping new introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner.

      The glass menagerie2012
      3.9
    • Brundibar

      • 56 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

      An illustrated retelling of the Czech opera in which a brother and sister find a way to outwit the bullying, bellowing, hurdy-gurdy grinder named Brundibar who will not let them earn money by singing in the town square

      Brundibar2003
      4.1
    • The premier American playwright of this decade speaks out about art, sexuality, and social justice

      Tony Kushner in Conversation1998
      4.2
    • Stuck Rubber Baby

      • 201 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      As a young gay man leading a closeted life in the 1960s American South, Toland Polk tries his best to keep a low profile. He’s aware of the racial injustice all around him—the segregationist politicians, the corrupt cops, the violent Klan members—but he feels powerless to make a difference. That all changes when he crosses paths with an impassioned coed named Ginger Raines.Ginger introduces him to a lively and diverse group of civil rights activists, folk singers, and night club performers—men and women who live authentically despite the conformist values of their hometown. Emboldened by this new community, Toland joins the local protests and even finds the courage to venture into a gay bar.No longer content to stay on the sidelines, Toland joins his friends as they fight against bigotry. But in Clayfield, Alabama, that can be dangerous—even deadly.

      Stuck Rubber Baby1995
      4.8
    • Dramatizes the effects of AIDS on the United States through the experiences of lawyer Roy Cohn, a Mormon couple, and a young man called Prior Walter

      Angels in America. Pt.21994
      4.3
    • Spectaculum 56

      Fünf moderne Theaterstücke

      • 318 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      Spectaculum 561993