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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).
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright, Screenwriter & Activist. BIOGRAPHY. Born in New York City in 1956, and raised in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Kushner is best known for his two-part epic, Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.
Tony Kushner. Writer: West Side Story. Tony Kushner's play "Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes" earned him the Pulitzer Prize, among many other awards. His other acclaimed plays include "Slavs", "Homebody/Kabul" and "Caroline, or Change".
- July 16, 1956
- A Louisiana Childhood
- Comes Out of The Closet
- Writes Angels in America
- Adapts Yiddish Play For Contemporary Stage
Kushner was born in New York City in 1956, but his parents, who were classical musicians, moved to Lake Charles, Louisiana, shortly after his birth. There, in what Kushner later called a "lush, hot, racist, sexist, homophobic, antisemitic backwater," he spent his formidable years, as he recalled in an interview published in Vogue magazine. "I remem...
Kushner was still searching for his sexual identity when he enrolled in the program in medieval studies at Columbia University, and as part of his ongoing plan to "become" a heterosexual, he sought help from a "straight" analyst. When that failed to change his perspective, he accepted his sexual orientation and began working with a gay therapist. F...
Though Angels in America is filled with many different characters, it is meant to be performed by eight persons who each play several roles. In the play's first part, Millennium Approaches, the story focuses on two couples—two gay men named Louis and Prior dealing with Prior's AIDS, and Harper and Joe, a nominally straight couple—although the marri...
Continuing Kushner's examination of how the past informs present choices and shapes decisions people make about the future is his play A Dybbuk; or, Between Two Worlds, an adaptation of S. Ansky's 1920 Yiddish play. A Dybbuk concerns the marriage of a young woman, Leah, the daughter of a wealthy man who has broken off negotiations with three prospe...
Angels in America is the first major work of playwright Tony Kushner, and its astounding success has turned the man and his writing into cultural icons of the late-twentieth century.
Tony Kushner. Writer: West Side Story. Tony Kushner's play "Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes" earned him the Pulitzer Prize, among many other awards. His other acclaimed plays include "Slavs", "Homebody/Kabul" and "Caroline, or Change".
A recent biography revealed that the author of All My Sons—a play about man’s responsibility not only to kin but to all humankind—institutionalized his Down syndrome son at birth and never ...
