The Theater of Tony Kushner: Living Past Hope (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780367026738)

The Theater of Tony Kushner is a comprehensive portrait of the forty-year long career of dramatist Tony Kushner as playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and public intellectual and political activist.

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 A Bright Room Called Day, Hydriotaphia, or The Death of Dr. Browne, Angels in America, Slavs! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness, Homebody/Kabul, Caroline, or Change, and The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, along with chapters on Kushner's adaptations, one-act plays, and screenplays, including his two Academy Award-nominated screenplays, Munich and Lincoln.

A book for anyone interested in theater, film, literature, and the ways in which the past informs the present, this second edition of The Theater of Tony Kushner 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.

Author: James Fisher
ISBN-10: 0367026732
ISBN-13: 9780367026738
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 09/30/2021
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2023