A collection of writings from the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning
author of Angels in America. This volume by Tony Kushner features the
play Slavs!, a "comic, mordant and marvelously provocative" look at
the crumbling of the Soviet Union (SF Chronicle), as well as several
essays, two poems and a prayer.
"Kushner is an intense and poetical writer, a great shaper of words."
-Laurie Winer, LA Times
"Tony Kushner is drunk on ideas, on language, on the possibility of
changing the world. His talent and his heart and his head are
incendiary, combustible, explosive, heartbreakingly vital and on-target.
This extraordinary new compendium contains enough haunting notions to
keep anyone who cares sleepless for eternity. I want everyone to read
him and listen to him and, yes goddamnit, think about what he says."
-Larry Kramer
"Terrific: his riff on the political and the personal, the theater of
the ridiculous and the theater of the fabulous, synthesizes humor and
commitment into wisdom." -Publishers Weekly
"Tony Kushner's Slavs! just might be the best out-take of a Pulitzer
Prize-winning play ever written." -Greg Evans, Variety
"Bracing...original...rambunctiously funny...seriously moving...part
buffoonish burlesque and part tragic satire...Mr. Kushner's words
dazzle, sting and prompt belly laughs." -Vincent Canby, New York Times
Tony Kushner's plays include Angels in America; Hydriotaphia, or
the Death of Dr. Brown; The Illusion, adapted from the play by Pierre
Corneille; Slavs!; A Bright Room Called Day; Homebody/Kabul;
Caroline, or Change, a musical with composer Jeanine Tesori; and The
Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to
the Scriptures. He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols's film of
Angels in America and for Steven Spielberg's Munich and Lincoln.
His books include The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the Present;
Brundibar, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak; and Wrestling with
Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict, co-edited with Alisa Solomon.
Among many honors, Kushner is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, two
Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, two Evening Standard Awards, an Olivier
Award, an Emmy Award, two Oscar nominations, and the Steinberg
Distinguished Playwright Award. He is a member of the American Academy
of Arts and Letters. In 2012, he was awarded a National Medal of Arts by
President Barack Obama. He lives in Manhattan with his husband, Mark
Harris.
