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Tony Kushner

March 2024

  • From left, Tony Kushner and Jonathan Glazer.

    ‘Unimpeachable, irrefutable’: US playwright Tony Kushner praises Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars speech

    The playwright and screenwriter, who was Oscar nominated last year for Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, has backed The Zone of Interest director

December 2022

  • Tony Kushner.

    ‘There are truths that have to be told and they may upset people’: Tony Kushner on Spielberg, Ye and ‘the orange-covered mud devil’

    The Angels in America writer talks about antisemitism, homophobia and working on The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg’s loosely autobiographical film about a teenager obsessed with cinema

December 2021

  • West Side Story.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    West Side Story review – Spielberg’s triumphantly hyperreal remake

    Stunning recreations of the original film’s New York retain the songs and the dancing in a re-telling that will leave you gasping

April 2021

  • Nancy Crane (Angel) and Stephen Dillane (Prior Walter) in Perestroika, Part II from Angels In America by Tony Kushner @ Cottesloe, National Theatre. Directed by Declan Donnellan. (Opened 20-11-1993) ©Tristram Kenton 11/93 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    'Howling anger': How Angels in America and The Normal Heart confronted the Aids crisis

    The pandemic inspired many works of art but two furious, turbulent plays written at its onset still tower over the rest. As both return, we explore their enduring power

February 2020

  • Caryl Churchill’s A Number at the Bridge Theatre 16. l-r Roger Allam (Salter) and Colin Morgan (B2). Photo credit Johan Persson

    The week in theatre: A Number; The Visit; Alone in Berlin – review

  • Lesley Manville channels Bette Davis.

    The Visit review – Tony Kushner's plodding revenge epic falls flat

January 2020

  • ‘Promise anything – so the actor is good’ … Desplechin, centre, at rehearsals for Angels in America.

    Arnaud Desplechin: 'Theatre is for the bourgeois. Film is the art of rascals!'

    The revered film director vowed never to touch theatre. So why is he staging the great Aids epic Angels in America? Apparently, it’s all a misunderstanding

September 2019

  • Jerusalem, Mr Burns and Barbershop Chronicles

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 50 best theatre shows of the 21st century

    A hip-hop history lesson, a dizzy Dahl musical and a continent-hopping barbershop … we pick the finest new works of theatre since 2000

December 2018

  • Tony Kushner

    Tony Kushner: 'Trump has a sinkhole instead of a soul'

    He has spent his life dramatising America’s angels and demons. As his civil rights musical returns to Britain, the playwright reveals all about revamping West Side Story for Spielberg – and writing a play about Trump

September 2017

  • Angels in America

    What can Angels in America teach us about the marriage equality debate?

    Tony Kushner’s play, which opened in Melbourne last week, is more relevant than ever as same-sex marriage opponents attack the push for equal rights

July 2017

  • Tony Kushner photographed in London, backstage at the National Theatre, where his play “Angels in America” is being performed. Anthony Robert “Tony” Kushner is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. He co-authored with Eric Roth the screenplay for the 2005 film Munich, and he wrote the screenplay for the 2012 film Lincoln. Both movies were critically acclaimed, and he received Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay. For his work, he received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013.

    Tony Kushner to write play on 'borderline psychotic' Donald Trump

  • Andrew Garfield plays the lead during a hospital scene in the “Angels in America” production at Britain’s National Theatre in London.

    Andrew Garfield, queer-baiting and the perils of 'playing gay'

June 2017

  • Beth Ditto

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography: May 2017

    Beth Ditto, cult TV, politicians, playwrights and performers feature in this month’s showcase of the best photography commissioned by the Observer

May 2017

  • Nathan Lane (Roy Cohn) and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Belize) in Angels In America

    Angels in America is more relevant than ever: minorities are never safe

    Chris Parkes
  • sharon d clarke and mesha bryan in caroline or change at chichester festival theatre

    Caroline, or Change review – gloriously disruptive

  • tony kushner photographed backstage at the national theatre in london

    Tony Kushner: ‘To love someone puts you at the risk of loss’

  • Sharon D Clarke and Abiona Omonua in Caroline, Or Change.

    Caroline, Or Change review – Tony Kushner blasts 60s America wide open

  • Angels in America review – Kushner’s epic ‘gay fantasia’ flies again

  • Angels in America review – Garfield and Lane excel in Kushner's surreal epic

April 2017

  • Andrew Garfield in Angels in America - Millennium Approches.

    Angels in America at the National Theatre – in pictures

    Twenty-five years after it was first staged in London, Tony Kushner’s inventive play about the Aids crisis is back. The cast includes Nathan Lane, Andrew Garfield, Russell Tovey and Denise Gough
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