Tony Kushner

Nov 26, 2024 | everyqueer.com | Sarah Schulman |David France |Abraham Verghese |Tony Kushner

Understanding the history of AIDS is crucial for both honoring the past and shaping a better future. The AIDS epidemic, particularly its devastating impact on the LGBTQ+ community, is a stark reminder of the consequences of stigma, discrimination, and neglect. By learning about the struggles, resilience, and activism of those who lived through this crisis, we gain invaluable insights into the human cost of prejudice and the importance of fighting for social justice and healthcare equality.

Oct 29, 2024 | thenation.com | Tony Kushner |Rachel Maddow

Politics / Q&A / October 29, 2024 Trumpism Is Not a “Rogue Wave”Tony Kushner and Rachel Maddow discuss the threats to US democracy and how art can help people see dangers on the horizon. Ad Policy Journalist Rachel Maddow and playwright Tony Kushner interview each other at the Author Guild Foundation’s WIT Literary Festival on September 28, in Lenox, Massachusetts.

Jul 12, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Tony Kushner |Karen Robson

History In 2022, Winchester erected a statue of the thirteenth-century female Jewish financier, Licoricia. Situated outside one of the major arts and heritage locations in Winchester, appropriately in Jewry Street, its prestige and status was confirmed by the then Prince Charles agreeing to unveil the statue, sculpted by Ian Rank-Broadley who has worked regularly with the Royal Family.

May 6, 2024 | artshub.com.au | Tony Kushner

ANGELS IN AMERICAA Gay Fantasia on National ThemesPart One: Millennium ApproachesandPart Two: Perestroika Written by Tony Kushner Directed by Hayley Horton 2 – 25 May 2024LITTLE THEATRE THE PLAYAn exciting, epic production in two parts, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a complex, metaphorical and symbolic examination of sexuality in America in the 1980s by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning playwright Tony Kushner (Munich, Lincoln, Fences, The Fablemans).

May 5, 2024 | stagewhispers.com.au | Tony Kushner

The University of Adelaide Theatre Guild (UATG) has chosen a brave and substantial piece of theatre for their May season. Angels in America, by Tony Kushner, is a two-part play, presented in two halves over two separate performances. Part one debuted in 1991 and 18 months later, Part two premiered. Set in New York City in 1985, it takes us back to AIDS, the 20th century pandemic that introduced us to the pervasive, uncontrollable nature of pandemics and the havoc that they wreak.