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Tony Kushner (1)

This page covers the author of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Parts 1 & 2.

For other authors named Tony Kushner, see the disambiguation page.

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Playwright Tony Kushner was born in New York City and raised in Louisiana. In addition to his plays, Kushner teaches at New York University and has co-written an opera with Bobby McFerrin. Kushner is best known for Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, a two-part seven-hour play that has won many awards (two Tony Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, two Drama Desk Awards, the Evening Standard Award, the New York Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award). It was also selected one of the ten best plays of the 20th century by London's Royal National Theatre. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Parts 1 & 2 … (more)

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Angels in America

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Works by Tony Kushner

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Parts 1 & 2 1,756 copies, 23 reviews

Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches 1,427 copies, 13 reviews

Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika 1,000 copies, 9 reviews

Brundibar (Author) 506 copies, 11 reviews

Lincoln [2012 film] (Screenwriter) 333 copies, 4 reviews

Munich [2005 film] (Screenwriter) 249 copies, 4 reviews

Homebody/Kabul 171 copies, 2 reviews

A Bright Room Called Day 154 copies, 2 reviews

Angels in America [2003 TV mini series] (Screenwriter) 153 copies, 1 review

The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the Present 132 copies, 2 reviews

Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness, Essays,… 108 copies

Caroline, or Change 89 copies, 2 reviews

Death and Taxes: Hydriotaphia and Other Plays 74 copies

A Dybbuk and Other Tales of the Supernatural (Editor) 69 copies, 2 reviews

Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the… (Editor) 67 copies, 1 review

Tony Kushner in Conversation (Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer… 39 copies

Lincoln: The Screenplay 35 copies, 4 reviews

Angels in America: Millennium Approaches & Perestroika (NHB Modern Plays) 31 copies

The Illusion 29 copies

Plays by Tony Kushner 21 copies

A Meditation from Angels in America: A Folding Screen Book 19 copies

Slavs! 17 copies

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes 8 copies

Tiny Kushner 4 copies

Homebody Kabul (performance of Oct. 17, 2003) 3 copies

Munich : screenplay 3 copies

Wrestling with Angels - VHS 2 copies

Homebody/Kabul: Final Revised Version 2 copies

The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism & Socialism with a Key to… 2 copies

Angels in America (Box Set 2), Part One: Millennium Approaches 2 copies

But the giraffe & Brundibar 2 copies

For Your Consideration: Lincoln 2 copies

The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key… 1 copy

Angels in America Part 1 and 2 DVD 1 copy, 1 review

Angels in America Playbill: Colonial Theatre Boston 1 copy

Assassination Vacation 1 copy

Lincoln: The Screenplay 1 copy

TDR #157 1 copy

Lincoln (For Your Consideration) 1 copy

Angels in America Playbill: Walter Kerr Theatre (Opening Night May 4,… 1 copy

Angels in America 2 Book Set: Part One - Millenium Approaches; Part Two -… 1 copy

Angels in America (British Premiere): Cottesloe Theatre, Royal National… 1 copy

A Dybbuk or, Between two worlds 1 copy

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Also by Tony Kushner

The Glass Menagerie (Introduction, some editions) 6,187 copies, 62 reviews

Stuck Rubber Baby (Introduction, some editions) 495 copies, 18 reviews

Arthur Miller: Collected Plays 1944-1961 (Library of America) (Editor, some editions) 278 copies, 1 review

Take Ten: New 10-Minute Plays (Contributor) 159 copies, 2 reviews

Wandering Stars (Foreword, some editions) 157 copies, 2 reviews

The Design of Dissent: Socially and Politically Driven Graphics (Foreword) 146 copies, 3 reviews

Collected Plays 1964-1982 (Editor) 91 copies, 1 review

The Creative Spirit: An Introduction to Theatre (Contributor) 73 copies

Love's Fire: Seven New Plays Inspired By Seven Shakespearean Sonnets (Contributor) 63 copies

The Jewish Writer (Contributor) 48 copies

The Greek Plays 37 copies, 1 review

Peter's Pixie (Introduction, some editions) 6 copies

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