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...

RADICAL PRAGMATIST Tony Kushner is the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Angels in America: A Cay Fantasia on National Themes, which airs as a two-part film-directed by Mike Nichols and starring Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, and Emma Thompson-on HBO this December. The play, originally...

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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...

Tony Kushner tried to break the spell for me a few months back when he said that American Jews' idea of Israel was a "fantasy built on a delusion." The delusion was the lack of understanding that creating the country in the first place had...

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, and minoritized as the preeminent gay male artifact of the 1990s. "]

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.

In the essay below, Kushner argues the need for a committed political theater in America.