The Shows That Reloaded the Canon for the 21st Century
To compile this list of the new millennium’s influential plays and musicals, we turned to industry workers, leaders, and observers to come up with 50 that pushed theatre forward.
All Stories About Tony Kushner
This Month in Theatre History
May recalls the Astor Place Riot, a vaudeville women’s rights advocate, the Moscow Art Theatre, a pioneer of Asian American drama, a Chicano performance troupe, and a beloved Tesori-Kushner musical.
This Month in Theatre History
November recalls the play Lincoln first saw Booth in, Kern’s Princess Theatre musicals, a Puerto Rican literary godfather, a gospel Oedipus musical, and a century-defining epic.
Jean Passanante: More Than One Life to Live
In her successful soap writing career, she used new-play development skills she honed at the O’Neill and New York Theatre Workshop, among others.
Hope, Commitment, and Community at TCG’s 2019 Gala
The event honored Martha Rivers Ingram, Rick Miramontez, and Tony Kushner.
TCG’s 2019 Gala to Honor Tony Kushner, Rick Miramontez, Martha R. Ingram
The evening will feature special performances from upcoming Broadway shows ‘Oklahoma!’ and ‘Hadestown.’
Places We Never Dreamed We’d Go
What do we owe to this quarter-century-old American classic? More life.
History Cracks Open, Again
Tony Taccone, a co-pilot for the first flight of ‘Angels in America,’ brings Kushner’s epic back home to Berkeley.
National Themes: How Britain’s Subsidized Theatre Helped ‘Angels’ Fly
The National Theatre revival, now headed for Broadway, brings an American play’s long London history full circle.
Would ‘Angels’ Get Off the Ground Today?
This epic ‘gay fantasia’ emerged from the recession-wracked regional theatre of the early 1990s, but the field may be even more risk-averse now.
