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Tony Kushner burst onto the international stage in the early 1990s with the critical success of his two-part Angels in America. Already established as a director, adaptor, and playwright working in regional theaters prior to Angels in America, Kushner fo...

Angels in America - Tony Kushner - 1992 Introduction Tony Kushner's two-part play, Angels in America (1992), has been lauded by critics and audiences alike as one of the most important American plays of the twentieth century. Set during the dawn...

Angels in America by Tony Kushner Born in 1956 in New York City, Tony Kushner moved with his family to Louisiana shortly thereafter. Kushner's mother was an actress, and he credits her performances with inspiring him to go into theater. Kushner studied...

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is an award winning play in two parts by American playwright Tony Kushner. It has been made into both a television miniseries of the same name and an opera by Peter Eötvös. The play is written for...

Angels in America From zippers to spiked heels 'Angels' looks still can kill By CATHERINE FITZPATRICK of the Journal Sentinel staff Tuesday, November 7, 2000 Twenty-four years have zipped by since the braless-babe triumvirate known as "Charlie's Angels" hair-flipped...

When administrators objected to a student play, faculty discovered that defending academic freedom can be a complex and conflicted ambition. When George Bernard Shaw visited Washington, D.C., he was told that the Catholic University of America was located in the city. Shaw's quick...

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner is writing a new play that will premiere at the Guthrie Theater in spring 2009, the theater announced Thursday.The Guthrie commissioned Kushner, who wrote the epic AIDS drama "Angels in America," to write a play Kushner is tentatively calling "The...

Posing naked for a publicity photo for her offbeat Showtime comedy series "Weeds" was no big deal for Mary-Louise Parker. It was the snake that bothered her."I didn't think I was going to do it actually," the 43-year-old actress told AP Radio News in a...

In the following essay, Frantzen examines the representation of Anglo-Saxon identity in Angels in America in terms of Kushner's sexual identity politics.

In the following essay, Savran examines the ideological underpinnings of Angels in America in terms of the cultural, historical, and political context in which it was produced.

In the following essay, Bechtel examines the underlying political ideology of Angels in America in terms of the leftist cultural theories of Walter Benjamin. Bechtel asserts that Kushner's play ultimately achieves a “historical disruption” of status quo politics.