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.
All Stories About Tony Kushner
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.’
Is ‘Angels in America’ Tough to Teach? Maybe, But We’re Here to Learn
College students question an editorial in which a university professor lamented the hurdles of teaching Kushner’s gay fantasia.
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.
Why I Stopped Teaching ‘Angels’ to Undergrads
It’s not just all the arduous unpacking: AIDS, Reagan, the closet, Mormons. It’s also that the play’s millennial dread seems puzzling to post-millennials.
‘Angels’ in the Details
A massive new oral history recreates the drama behind Kushner’s modern epic, but does it do his ideas justice?
