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DUE TO OVERWHELMING DEMAND, SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE 2010-2011 20th ANNIVERSARY TONY KUSHNER SEASON ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE
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September 14 - December 19, 2010
Angels in America:
A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
Part One: Millennium Approaches Part Two: Perestroika
By Tony Kushner
Directed by Michael Greif
BOTH PARTS PRESENTED IN REPERTORY
Set in late 1985 and early 1986, as the first wave of the AIDS epidemic in America is escalating and Ronald Reagan has been elected to a second term in the White House, this Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play's two parts, Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, bring together a young gay man with AIDS and his frightened, unfaithful lover; a closeted Mormon lawyer and his valium-addicted wife; the infamous New York lawyer Roy Cohn; an African-American male nurse; a Mormon housewife from Utah; and a steel-winged, prophecy-bearing angel; as well as the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg, an ancient rabbi, the world's oldest living Bolshevik and a Reagan administration functionary, among many others -- all played by a company of eight actors. The lives of these disparate characters intersect, intertwine, collide and are blown apart during a time of heartbreak, reaction and transformation. Ranging from earth to heaven, from the political to the intimate to the visionary and supernatural, Angels in America is an epic exploration of love, justice, identity and theology, of the difficulty, terror and necessity of change.
Angels in America is made possible by a generous grant
from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
March 22 - June 12, 2011
The Intelligent Homosexual's
Guide to Capitalism and Socialism
with a Key to the Scriptures
By Tony Kushner
Directed by Michael Greif
A co-production with The Public Theater,
in association with The Guthrie Theater
Performances will take place at The Public Theater
In the summer of 2007, Gus Marcantonio, a retired longshoreman, summons his children to the family's Brooklyn brownstone for a series of shocking announcements. "iHo" (as Kushner calls it) explores revolution, radicalism, marriage, sex, prostitution, politics, real estate, unions of all kinds and debts both repaid and unpayable. Michael Greif will also direct this New York premiere after a critically acclaimed production at the Guthrie Theater in 2009. This production will take place at the Public Theater.
April 19 - June 18, 2011
The Illusion
By Tony Kushner
adapted from
Pierre Corneille's L’Illusion Comique
Directed by Michael Mayer
A lawyer, facing mortality, desperate to find the son he drove away years before, travels in the dead of night to a mysterious cave. There he engages the services of a wizard, who conjures up visions of the romantic, adventurous, perilous life the lawyer's son has been living since his father expelled him from home. The Illusion, freely adapted from Pierre Corneille's L'Illusion Comique, is Kushner's most joyfully theatrical play, a wildly entertaining tale of passion and regret, of love, disillusionment and magic.
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