Posts Tagged ‘Tony Kushner’
Kushner’s “Angels in America” Part One Lands Impressively at Cygnet Theatre
Saturday, March 9, 2019, San Diego’s fearless Cygnet Theatre opened part one of Tony Kushner’s prize winning “Angels in America–Millennium Approaches” in a prodigiously acted and tautly directed production under the magisterial direction of Cygnet Artistic Director Sean Murray.
Read More‘Angels in America’ Confronts the Politics of the Trump Terror
If you think that the timing of the current successful revivals of Tony Kushner’s award winning play “Angels in America: a Gay Fantasia on National Themes” in New York City and at the Berkeley Rep in the San Francisco Bay Area is accidental, then you have not been paying attention to either the playwright or to Washington politics.
Read MoreLanguage And Its Exuberances Pepper NCR’s Excellent ‘Illusion’
French baroque playwright Pierre Corneille’s ‘L’Illusion Comique’ was written in 1636 as a nod to theater’s intrinsic beauty. Tony Kushner’s eye and ear saw the inherent tribute to performance art — and North Coast Repertory Theatre’s ‘The Illusion’ has preserved it with an excellent entry.
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