In the Fall of 1992, "Millennium Approaches," the first part of
Tony Kushner's "Angels in America," won England's prestigious
"Evening Standard" award as the season's Best Play. By the Spring
of 1993, "Millennium" had come to Broadway and won its highest
honor, the Tony Award for Best Play, and the distinguished Pulitzer
Prize for drama as well. Through its epic theatrical panorama of
the intimate and political dynamics that arise when individuals,
histories, and cultures intersect, "Millennium" captured the
imagination and the conscience of all who saw it. Its ability to
deeply move the audience in personal, communal, and political ways
was admirably (and astoundingly) matched by the subsequent
production of the play's second part," Perestroika," which brought
Kushner yet another "Evening Standard" award and Tony Award for
Best Play (1994). Tony Kushner has, almost overnight, become the
premier American male playwright to "represent" the 1990s, as David
Mamet and August Wilson dominated critical attention in the 1980s.
The phenomenally positive response to "Angels in America" was
matched by the equally enthusiastic reception of its young,
politically engaged playwright, who impressed journalists and
scholars with his eloquent intellect, wit, and moral convictions.
Kushner spoke for a younger generation of American artists and
activists whose art is intimately connected to social vision and
"revolutionary" possibilities in the public and private sectors.
His role as a generational (read "national," "liberal,"
"socialist," "Jewish," "queer") spokesman has provided him with a
public platform from which to address concerns that lie at the
center of national debate. In a short timeKushner has captured and
retained a nation's fascination, and his opinions are widely sought
out on a wide range of topics. And, most often, the platform from
which Kushner expresses his ideas is the personal interview, in
which he boldly confronts Americans to rethink, even to reinvent,
themselves as the Millennium approaches.
"Tony Kushner in Conversation" is the first book to compile
Kushner's most significant interviews of the past decade, tracing
his career from its early years to his maturing artistic and
political visions. The collection includes pieces that first
appeared in an amazingly broad range of periodicals as well as
interviews not previously published, such as his appearance on PBS
on The Charlie Rose Show.
In addition to "Angels in America," Tony Kushner is author of
"Slavs!" and is currently finishing work on "Henry Box Brown,"
scheduled to have its world premiere at the Royal National Theatre
in the summer of 1997. Robert Vorlicky is Associate Professor of
Drama at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
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