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Anthony Robert Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter. Lauded for his work on stage, he is most known for his seminal work Angels in America, which earned a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award, as well as its subsequent acclaimed HBO miniseries of the same name.
May 1, 2024 · Tony Kushner (born July 16, 1956, New York, New York, U.S.) is an American dramatist who became one of the most highly acclaimed playwrights of his generation after the debut of his two-part play Angels in America (1990, 1991). Kushner grew up in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and attended Columbia University and New York University.
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Nov 30, 2021 · Tony Kushner, Oracle of the Upper West Side. When Steven Spielberg asked Kushner, America’s most important living playwright, to take on ‘West Side Story,’ he thought, ‘He’s lost his mind.’....
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Dec 9, 2021 · December 9, 2021 1:30 PM EST. W hen Steven Spielberg approached the playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner about the possibility of remaking West Side Story in 2014, Kushner was initially...
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Aug 10, 2014 · Special to The Seattle Times. In the late 1980s, the young writer Tony Kushner began work on his second play: a theatrical epic about AIDS and homophobia, race and morality, religion and ...
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Mar 29, 2023 · Tony Kushner on Jewishness, Spielberg, ‘unsafe’ art. Clea Simon. Harvard Correspondent. March 29, 2023 5 min read. In Harvard visit, Pulitzer-winning playwright reflects on roots, writing (and rewriting), empathy in a darkened theater.
Dec 3, 2021 · Tony Kushner on Tackling ‘West Side Story’ With Spielberg: “We Knew We Were Going Into a Complicated Situation” The Pulitzer-winning screenwriter on working side-by-side with the late Stephen...
