The New York Times reports this morning that Playwright Tony Kushner has been named the first recipient of the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award. The award, which which comes with a cash prize of $200,000 will be presented on Wednesday.
Director Joe Dowling today announced that the Guthrie Theater will celebrate the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner in a landmark series set for the spring of 2009. In addition to presenting the previously announced Guthrie commission, tentatively titled The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, Dowling also announced plans for productions of Caroline, or Change on the Wurtele Thrust Stage and a collection of Kushner's short plays in the Dowling Studio as part of the upcoming 2008-09 Season. These three simultaneous productions will join a series of speakers, scholars and other special events designed to fully examine and celebrate Kushner's body of work.
Guthrie Director Joe Dowling announced that Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner has been commissioned by the Guthrie to write a new play. Tentatively titled The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, Kushner's Guthrie commission will premiere on the McGuire Proscenium Stage in the spring of 2009, as part of the Guthrie's 2008-2009 season.
Joe Gallagher will temporarily replace Euan Morton for the Yale Repertory Theatre run of Tony Kushner and Maurice Sendak's Brundibar, which plays with Comedy on a Bridge
Rita Moreno and Delroy Lindo will be two of the readers in Once Upon a Wild Thing: Celebrating The Works of Maurice Sendak during the Berkeley run of Sendak's and Tony Kushner's Brundibar and Comedy on a Bridge
Euan Morton and William Youmans will respectively star in Brundibar and Comedy on a Bridge, two one-act opera collaborations between Tony Kushner and Maurice Sendak that will play engagments in CA and CT before moving to New York
'Brundibar/Comedy on the Bridge' with libretto by Tony Kushner and designs by Maurice Sendak set for Berkeley Rep in November and then NYC bound in April
