TONY KUSHNER (1956 - )
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Tony Kushner
And The Torso Even More So |
| 1st Produced: | 1998-99 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | T(ext) Shirt Play | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Anyone can perform this play by an award-winning playwright simply by wearing the t-shirt upon which it is written | ||||
Angels In America, Part One: Millennium Approaches |
| 1st Produced: | Eureka Theatre Company, San Francisco | 1991 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1992 | |||
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| Genre: | Epic | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: first performed in a workshop production presented by Center Theatre Group / Mark Taper Forum, May 1990 | ||||
Synopsis: the camp comedy of drag queens to the death or at least the absconding of God. | ||||
Angels In America, Part Two: Perestroika |
| 1st Produced: | Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles | 1992 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Theatre Communications Group, New York | 1993 | ||
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| Genre: | Epic | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A true millennial work of art, uplifting, hugely comic and pantheistically religious in a very American style | ||||
Bright Room Called Day, A |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1987 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in Tony Kushner Plays, Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY | 1991 | ||
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| Genre: | Political drama | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: follows a group of artsists and political activists struggling to preserve themselves in 1930s Berlin as the Weimar Republic surrenders to the seduction of fascism. Often exquisitely tyrical, always exhilaratingly intelligent, the poetic world of the play moves beyond the bounds of historical reality with the morally outraged outpourings of a contemporary New York woman. | ||||
Caroline, or Change |
| 1st Produced: | Joseph Papp Public Theater/Newman Theater, Off Broadway, NY | 2003 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Theatre Communications Group, USA, 2005 (Nick Hern Books, London, 2006 >>> | 2005 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | larger cast | |||
Notes: Composer Jeanine Tesori | ||||
Synopsis: Louisiana, 1963: A nation reeling from the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement and the Kennedy assassination. Caroline, a black maid, and Noah, the son of the Jewish family she works for, struggle to find an identity for their friendship. Through their intimate story, this beautiful new musical portrays the changing rhythms of a nation. Tony Kushner and composer Jeanine Tesori have created a story that addresses contemporary questions of culture, community, race and class through the lens and musical pulse of the 1960s. | ||||
Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds, A |
| 1st Produced: | Joseph Papp Public Theater/Newman Theater, Off Broadway, NY | 1997 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Theatre Communications Group, USA | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 27 | Female | 9 |
| Parts Other: | doubling recommended | |||
Notes: The classic Yiddish tale by S. Ansky, adapted by Tony Kushner and Joachim Neugroschel. | ||||
Synopsis: Considered by many to be the greatest Yiddish drama, The Dybbuk recounts the tale of a wealthy man's daughter who is possessed by the spirit of her dead beloved. Collectively, these tales illuminate different aspects of the Jewish mystical world, including possessions, transmigration, fairy tales, parables and miracles. | ||||
East Coast Ode to Howard Jarvis |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in Death and Taxes: Hydriotaphia & Other Plays, Theatre Communications Group, USA | - | ||
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| Genre: | Monologues | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A series of monologues about the self-styled 'tax revolt leader' | ||||
G. David Schine in Hell |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in Death and Taxes: Hydriotaphia & Other Plays, Theatre Communications Group, USA | - | ||
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| Genre: | Short Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A short piece set in Hell, June 1996 | ||||
Good Person Of Setzuan, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in manuscript French, New York | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 18 | Female | 11 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Dario Fo; written in collaboration with A M Giugn | ||||
Synopsis: three gods appear on a mission - to find one really 'good' person. A kindly prostitute | ||||
Home Body/Kabul |
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||
| Company: | Moving Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: about our floundering attempts to connect with other people and cultures, and the kaleidoscopic and contradictory images confounding our attempts not only to explore such connections, but also to exploreourselves. Home Body/ Kabul is the first extended monologue Tony Kushner has written in a body of work that has famously blasted contemporary American drama from the obsessively personal to the inescapably political. The play touches on topics close to Kushner's heart, following the tangential thought processes of a woman who is fascinated by Afghanistan, and her encounter with an Afghan man whose severed fingers provide an agonised testimony to fundamentalism'scruelty. Her narrative constantly shifts and changes direction, throwing its random spotlight on to episodes in Afghan history, on to elliptic observations about her own life, and on to the audience. The force of its beam suddenly exposes uncomfortablequestions in our lives, showing up the liberal conscience in all its flawed dignity, and refusing to abnegate the complexity of political responsibility by giving any answers. "I have a friend, " she confides, "who says. . . `Might do.' `I'm off to thecinema; care to come?' `Might do.' `I am leaving my husband and children, how about leaving yours?' `Might do.'" The audience smiles at this cosy satire, and then - wham - the finger is pointing at us. "We all romp about, I think, observing, pitying,grieving, wondering, but with rare exceptions we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal For Ever that agglutinates between Might and Do." | ||||
Hydriotaphia or The Death of Dr. Brown |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1987 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in Death and Taxes: Hydriotaphia & Other Plays, Theatre Communications Group, USA | - | ||
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| Genre: | Epic farce | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||
Illusion, The |
| 1st Produced: | Perry Street Theatre, Off Broadway, NY | 1988 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in Tony Kushner Plays, Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY | 1991 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Pierre Corneille | ||||
Synopsis: Concerned with domestic matters the alienation of parents from children, marital infidelity. | ||||
Millennium Approaches |
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Mother Courage |
| 1st Produced: | Delacorte Theater, NY | 2006 | ||
| Company: | The Public Theater | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht, translated by Tony Kushner, original music by Jeanine Tesori | ||||
Synopsis: The Public Theater's second free offering in Central Park this summer is a new translation of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage, penned by Tony Kushner, with music by Jeanine Tesori. (The two collaborated with director George C. Wolfe on Caroline, or Change | ||||
Perestroika Angels In America Part 2 |
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Reverse Transcription: Six Playwrights Bury A Seventh |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Smith & Kraus in Humana Festival '96, The Complete Plays and by Samuel French Inc. in Ten Minute Plays: Volume 4 from Actors Theatre of Louisville | 1996 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | plus one male corpse | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: At midnight in a cemetary on Martha's Vineyard, six moderately inebriated playwrights prepare to bury the remains of a seventh-- illegally. Countering despair with wit, these bandit dramatists revel in their mad adventure and muse against the dying of the light. | ||||
Slavs! Thinking About The Longstanding Problems of Virtue And Happiness) |
| 1st Produced: | 1993-94 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in Tony Kushner Plays, Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY | 1991 | ||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 1g | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: a fantastical / political / historical exploration of life in the Soviet Union in the earliest dawn of Perestroika. In scenes ranging from the inner chambers of the Politburo to a secret chamber beneath Lenin's Tomb to a medical facility near a radioactive disposal site in Siberia, Slavs! considers the difficulty, the failure and the abiding importance of Socialism and of ongoing efforts towards building collective societies and a more just world. | ||||
Stella |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1987 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Goethe | ||||
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T(ext) Shirt Project, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Humana Festival 1999: The Complete Plays, ed Michael Bigelow Dixon & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus | 1999 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: with plays by David Henry Hwang, Tony Kushner, Jane Martin, Naomi Wallace, Wendy Wasserstein, and Mac Wellman. | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Terminating or Sonnet LXXV |
| 1st Produced: | The Pit, London | 1998 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Short Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A delirious short play about a psychotherapist, her patient, and their lovers | ||||
Widows |
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles | 1991 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | 1997 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 13 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Playwright - Ariel Dorfman | ||||
Synopsis: In this smouldering political allegory the men have disappeared from the war-torn village leaving the women to wait. | ||||
Yes, Yes, No, No |
| 1st Produced: | St. Louis, Missouri | 1985 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays in Process, 7, 11", New York | 1987 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Childrens | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
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