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Tony Kushner on his evolution as a storyteller, from Angels in America to The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide

Tony Kushner on his evolution as a storyteller, from Angels in America to The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide

Update: 2024-06-30
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This week, for Pride season, the Oscar-nominated playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner. Known most recently for his movie collaborations with Steven Spielberg, including Lincoln, Westside Story and The Fablemans, Kushner's breakout hit was his epic play Angels in America, the winner of multiple Tonys and a Pulitzer Prize, among many other awards. Fuelled by the AIDS crisis and Reaganism in the 1980s, the play was made into an opera and an HBO miniseries starring Meryl Streep, Al Pacino and Emma Thompson. In this conversation with Eleanor Wachtel from 2011, Kushner also talks about his later work, The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, a family drama that evokes George Bernard Shaw and Mary Baker Eddy.

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Tony Kushner on his evolution as a storyteller, from Angels in America to The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide

Tony Kushner on his evolution as a storyteller, from Angels in America to The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide