Tony Kushner
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Language
English
Description
• World premiere at Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis in 2009. New York premiere at The Public Theater in 2010 (co-produced with Signature Theatre). West coast premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theater in 2014.
• Has been notoriously and extensively revised between each of the above productions.
• Title is a reference from the work of George Bernard Shaw ("The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism") and to Mary Baker Eddy ("Key...
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes includes Part One, Millennium Approaches and Part Two, Perestroika
Glorious. A monumental, subversive, altogether remarkable masterwork...Details of specific catastrophes may have changed since this Reagan-era AIDS epic won the Pulitzer and the Tony, but the real cosmic and human obsessions—power, religion, sex,...
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes includes Part One, Millennium Approaches and Part Two, Perestroika
Glorious. A monumental, subversive, altogether remarkable masterwork...Details of specific catastrophes may have changed since this Reagan-era AIDS epic won the Pulitzer and the Tony, but the real cosmic and human obsessions—power, religion, sex,...
5) Brundibar
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Publisher
Michael di Capua Books/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Aninku and Pepicek find their mother sick one morning, they need to buy her milk to make her better. The brother and sister go to town to make money by singing. But a hurdy-gurdy grinder, Brundibar, chases them away. They are helped by three talking animals and three hundred schoolchildren, to defeat the bully. Brundibar is based on a Czech opera for children that was performed fifty-five times by the children of Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp...
7) The illusion
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Series
TCG translations ; 6
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Five exotic plays from the famous Ridiculous Theatre of New York, with a preface by Tony Kushner. The late Charles Ludlam ransacked theatrical and literary history in an evolutionary quest for a modern art of stage comedy. His more than 30 plays - most famously those collected here - are among the funniest, most erudite and anarchic in the modern repertoire. The Mystery of Irma Vep is a hilarious send-up of Jane Eyre, Daphne du Maurier and Victorian...
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Tony Kushner and Alisa Solomon brings together prominent poets, essayists, journalists, activists, academics, novelists and playwrights representing the diversity of opinion in the progressive Jewish-American community to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
This is a deeply moving portrait of Maurice Sendak, a seminal talent who is conflicted with his success, and whose lifelong obsession with death has subtly and ironically influenced his work. Now 81, Sendak is best known for his first book, Where the wild things are, which he wrote after spending ten years as an illustrator. Through his own words, firsthand photos, and illustrations, Sendak offers a rare, intimate, and unexpected look at his exceptional...
Author
Language
English
Description
From Lance Bangs and Spike Jonze, acclaimed director of Where the Wild Things Are, comes A Portrait of Maurice Sendak, a loving look at one of the most cherished and controversial figures in children's literature. Featuring Tell Them Anything You Want, this is a deeply moving tribute to Sendak, a seminal talent whose conflicts with success and lifelong obsession with death have subtly influenced his work. Now 81, Sendak is best known for his book,...