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Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Kushner received the Pulitzer Prize for his play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, which he later adapted for television. His screenwriting credits include Munich (2005) and Lincoln (2012).

Books

The National Theatre’s 2018 Tony Award®‒winning Broadway revival of ANGELS IN AMERICA is now an audiobook

Since its premiere in 1991, Angels in America—both Part One: Millennium Approaches and Part Two: Perestroika—has become one of the most important works of American theater and a staple of theater courses across the country. Its portrait of New Yorkers grappling with the AIDS crisis and complex questions of identity, community, justice, and redemption remains

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