Tony Kushner
SOMETHING’S COMING
DEFYING GRAVITY
Arguably Broadway’s most successful director (heard of “Wicked”?), Joe Mantello wasn’t looking to act when Ryan Murphy reached out. Now he’s making everyone watching Netflix cry.
PAST PRESENT
He’s rewritten his pre-“Angels in America” play “A Bright Room Called Day” to take damning account of the Trump era. Plus, all women together in “Fefu and Her Friends.”
Masterpiece
Tony Kushner’s ‘Angels in America’ returns to Broadway in a superb National Theatre production, its themes of gay sexuality, AIDS, and resistance as powerful now as in the ’90s.
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Power
As the U.K. production of ‘Angels in America’ hits American cinemas, Tony Kushner reveals his plans for a Trump play—and talks about what Roy Cohn taught Trump.
Dialogue
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright talks about editing Arthur Miller’s plays, Philip Seymour Hoffmann, marriage equality, Lincoln, and the relative merits of writing plays and movies.
Highlights 2012
The president digs the much-buzzed-about film, its screenwriter, Tony Kushner, says at 'Newsweek' and The Daily Beast’s Hero Summit.