Tony Kushner's plays includeAngels in America,A Bright Room Called Day,Slavs!,Homebody/Kabul, and the musicalCaroline, or Changewith composer Jeanine Tesori. He has adapted Corneille'sThe Illusion, Ansky'sThe Dybbuk, and Brecht'sThe Good Person of SzechuanandMother Courage and Her Children. He wrote the screenplay for Mike Nichols's film ofAngels in America, and the screenplays for Steven Spielberg'sMunich,Lincoln,West Side Story, andThe Fabelmans. His books includeWrestling with Zion, co-edited with Alisa Solomon;Brundibar, illustrated by Maurice Sendak; andThe Art of Maurice Sendak, 1980 to the Present. Kushner was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama. He lives in Manhattan with his husband, Mark Harris.
'A vast, rich work of public-intellectual engagement... The values built into this beautifully inquiring play operate outside of common dramatic economies. Kushner's carefully organized labor of love is a spur to the active mind' * Time Out New York * 'Thrillingly ambitious... I walked into New York's Public Theater... genuinely excited to find out what was on the author's mind and left with enough food for thought to last a theatrical winter' * Los Angeles Times * 'One of the most absorbing dramas on the London stage' * Observer * 'Dramatic ambition and intellectual elan' * Telegraph * 'A massively stimulating evening' * Independent *