From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America comes this powerful portrayal of individual dissolution and resolution in the face of political catastrophe.“It’s brash, audacious and…intoxicatingly visionary.”—Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune
Cover art by noted artist Maurice Sendak. Major New York production of A Dybbuk scheduled for 1997. The volume also includes never-before-translated tales by S. Ansky.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for DramaAngels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes includes Part One, Millennium Approaches and Part Two, Perestroika“Glorious. A monumental, subversive, altogether remarkable masterwork…Details of specific catastrophes may have changed since this Reagan-era AIDS epic won the Pulitzer and the Tony, but the real cosmic and human obsessions—power, religion, sex, responsibility, the future of the world—are as perilous, yet...
With the success of HBO's presentation of «Angels in America,» Kushner can do no wrong. New fans, having been exposed to the HBO's «Angels in America,» and loyal fans will want to see Kushner's latest work of art.
• Hydriotaphia premieres at Houston’s Alley Theatre this spring and will also be staged at the Berkeley Rep Theatre • The first new work since Angels in America (CBSD sold over 200,000 total in combined formats) • His last book, a re-telling of A Dybbuk with Joachim Neugrochel, just shipped this Spring. • University of Michigan has published studies of Angels in America. •
“Mr. Kushner’s glorious specialty is in giving theatrical life to internal points of view, in which our thoughts meld with a character’s wayward speculations or fantasies… He makes the personal and the universal, the trivial and the cosmic come simultaneously to life in a single character’s bewilderment.” –Ben Brantley, New York Times“An extraordinary play…a deeply felt, expansively ruminative drama.”...
“All forward thrust and hot-damn urgency…A brilliant, brawling epic. Screenwriter Tony Kushner blows the dust off history by investing it with flesh, blood, and churning purpose. . . . A great American movie.” –Peter Travers, Rolling Stone“Lincoln is a rough and noble democratic masterpiece. And the genius of Lincoln, finally, lies in its vision of politics as a noble, sometimes clumsy dialectic of the exalted and the mundane…And Mr....
