Theater of Tony Kushner

<p><em>The Theater of Tony Kushner</em> is a comprehensive portrait of the forty-year long career of dramatist Tony Kushner as playwright screenwriter essayist and public intellectual and political activist.</p><p>Following an introduction examining the influences of Kushner’s development as an artist this updated second edition features individual chapters on his major plays including <em>A Bright Room Called Day</em> <em>Hydriotaphia or The Death of Dr. Browne</em> <em>Angels in </em>America<em> Slavs! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness</em><em> Homebody/Kabul</em><em> Caroline or Change</em><em> </em>and <em>The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures</em> along with chapters on Kushner’s adaptations one-act plays and screenplays including his two Academy Award-nominated screenplays <i>Munich</i> and <i>Lincoln</i>.</p><p>A book for anyone interested in theater film literature and the ways in which the past informs the present this second edition of <i>The Theater of Tony Kushner</i> explores how his writings reflect key elements of American society from politics and economics to race gender and spirituality all with the hope of inspiring America to live up to its ideals.</p>