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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 r...
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Interview with Kushner (1994)
"Tony Kushner Considers the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness: An Interview by David Savran," in American Theater, Vol. 11, No. 6, October 1994,...
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In the following evaluation of Perestroika, Simon notes that the play "aspires to epic status and, with its free-ranging action and propulsive energy, does approach it, " but ultimately,...
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In this assessment, Lahr declares Perestroika "a master-piece."
Tony Kushner wrote Perestroika, the second part of Angels in America, in what he describes as "an incredible eight ...
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Here, Brustein states that Perestroika "features the wittiest writing, and brightest sensibility, of any play in memory. But it not only has little in the way of structure, it also lacks the im...
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In the essay below, Savran attempts to answer the question of why "a play featuring five gay male characters [is being universalized as a 'turning point' in the American theatre, ...
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In this essay, Freedman analyzes Angels in America as "the most powerful recent attempt to interrogate the complex interrelation between inscriptions of Jewish and sexual otherness."
Th...
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In the essay below, Kushner argues the need for a committed political theater in America.
In his essay on Theodore Dreiser, E. L. Doctorow quotes Dreiser's critical description of himself as a ...
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In the following review of the New York production of Millennium Approaches, Rich declares the play "a true American work in its insistence on embracing all possibilities in art and life....
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Although he admires Millennium Approaches, Simon finds the work truncated and incomplete without its second half, Perestroika.
How nice it would be to have stumbled upon Angels in America on some far-...
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In the review below, Lahr argues that Millennium Approaches, "which is gay in subject matter and theme, is about America, about justice, about decency, and about heart."
"And how ...
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In this assessment of Perestroika, Rich considers the play "a true millennial work of art, uplifting, hugely comic and pantheistically religious in a very American style. "
If you end th...
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In this review, Winer regards Perestroika as "playful and profound, extravagantly theatrical and deeply spiritual, witty and compassionate, furious and incredibly smart, " but concedes t...
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In the following review of Homebody/Kabul, Steyn comments that the characters are not well developed, the plot is unfocused, and the play lacks a clear sense of purpose.
There was an extraordinary pic...
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In the following review, Reston offers praise for Homebody/Kabul, calling it a brilliant play and a major accomplishment.
Early in the second act of Homebody/Kabul Tony Kushner's brilliant play...
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In the following review, Brustein criticizes Homebody/Kabul, commenting that the events of the play seem inconsequential in light of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, and ...
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In the following review, Coles comments that Homebody/Kabul is an insightful and thought-provoking play.
Imagine a vast but indeterminate place, an artifice cobbled out of contending cultures and hist...
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In the following review, Hornby asserts that, while Homebody/Kabul is written in a formless style, it is a major play by an important playwright.
George Bernard Shaw once said that when he wrote his p...
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In the following essay, Fisher explains the significance of Kushner's work to American theater of the late twentieth century and turn of the millennium.
Art is necessary in order that man shoul...
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In the following review, Phelan compares productions of Homebody/Kabul staged in New York and in Berkeley, California. Phelan asserts that the first act of the play is stronger than the second act.
To...
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In the following review, the critic comments that the main story in Brundibar is ultimately one of hope, although it includes a darker subtext.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Kushner adapts this al...
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