Delve Deeper into "Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner" A film by Freida Lee Mock
This multi-media resource list, Kushner, Tony. A Bright Room Kushner, Tony and Alisa compiled by Rebecca Federman Called Day. New York: Theatre Solomon (eds.). Wrestling with of the New York Library in Communications Group, 1994. Zion: Progressive Jewish- partnership with the American About the dying days of Weimar American Responses to the Library Association, provides a Germany among a group of left- Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. New range of perspectives on the wing activists who slowly realize York: Grove Press, 2003. Jewish issues raised by the upcoming they are losing to the Nazis. writers and thinkers contribute to P.O.V. documentary “Wrestling the dialogue on the current state of With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner, Tony. Brundibar. New the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Kushner” that premieres on York: Hyperion Books for ______December 12 at 9 PM on PBS Children, 2003. Illustrated by ADULT NONFICTION (check local listings at Maurice Sendak, Brundibar is based
www.pbs.org/pov/). on a Czech opera for children which Evans, Eli N. Jewish Roots in was performed fifty-five times by Southern Soil: A New History. the children of Terezin, a Nazi Tony Kushner, whose epochal Massachusetts: Brandeis concentration camp in 1943. Angels in America won a Pulitzer University Press, 2006. Essays on
Prize and Tony Award, has the history of the Jewish South, Kushner, Tony. Caroline, Or emerged as one of the country's from the 18th century settlers to Change. New York: Theatre leading playwrights — and one of the present day. Communications Group, 2004. its fiercest moral critics. In the new Louisiana, 1963: A nation reeling award-winning film "Wrestling With Fisher, James (ed.). Tony from the burgeoning Civil Rights Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner", Kushner: New Essays on the Art Movement and the Kennedy Oscar-winning director Freida Lee and Politics of the Plays. North assassination. Caroline, a black Mock ("Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2006. maid, and Noah, the son of the Vision," P.O.V. 1996) followed A deeper exploration into Tony Jewish family she works for, Kushner for three tumultuous Kushner’s political voice, and his struggle to find an identity for their years, from Sept. 11, 2001 to the insight into the human condition. friendship. 2004 presidential election, to delve
into the passions that keep him Geis, Deborah R. and Steven F. Kushner, Tony. reaching for the great American Kruger (eds.). Approaching the Homebody/Kabul. New York: play. Actors Marcia Gay Harden, Millennium: Essays on Angels in Theatre Communications Group, Meryl Streep, Tonya Pinkins and America. Michigan: University of 2005. The play centers around the Emma Thompson, directors Mike Michigan Press, 1998. Scholarly disappearance of an eccentric Nichols and George C. Wolfe, and essays on Angels' themes of gay British woman (the Homebody) and writer/artist Maurice Sendak are identity, and American drama. the search for her by her husband seen collaborating with Kushner on and daughter. In their quest for the such landmark works as Angels in Goldfarb, Jeffrey C. The politics truth and closure, the lines between America, Caroline, or Change, and of Small Things: The Power of real and unreal, the political and the Homebody/Kabul. the Powerless in Dark Times. personal are intentionally blurred Illinois: University of Chicago and are fully ambiguous. Press, 2006. Goldfarb emphasizes ______micro-movements, in the form of WORKS BY TONY KUSHNER Kushner, Tony. Death & Taxes: dinner table conversation and Hydriotaphia and Other Plays. drama, as incredibly effective forces Kushner, Tony. Angels in New York: Theatre in political dialogue. America: A Gay Fantasia on Communications Group, 2000. A
National Themes : Millennium collection of plays including Reverse Krupnick, Mark. Jewish Writing Approaches/Perestroika. New Transcription: Six Playwrights Bury and the Deep Places of the York: Theatre Communications a Seventh, Hydriotaphia or The Imagination. Wisconsin: Group, 2003. In two full-length Death of Doctor Browne, G. David University of Wisconsin Press, plays--Millennium Approaches and Schine in Hell, Notes on Akiba, 2005. Deep, elemental questions Perestroika--Kushner tells the story Terminating or Sonnet LXXV, and answered by some of the most of a handful of people trying to East Coast Ode to Howard Jarvis. illustrious Jewish writers and make sense of the world. Prior is a thinkers of today. man living with AIDS whose lover Kushner, Tony. Thinking About
Louis has left him and become the Longstanding Problems of McGraw, Eliza R. L. Two involved with Joe, an ex-Mormon Virtue and Happiness: Essays, a Covenants: Representations of and political conservative whose Play, Two Poems, and a Prayer. Southern Jewishness. Louisiana: wife, Harper, is slowly having a New York: Theatre Louisiana State University nervous breakdown. These stories Communications Group, 1995. A Press, 2005. A historical and are contrasted with that of Roy collection of writing about the literary look at the many examples Cohn and his attempts to remain in playwright’s personal views on of Jewish history and representation the closet while trying to find some culture and politics. in Southern states. sort of personal salvation in his
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Delve Deeper into "Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner" A film by Freida Lee Mock
Mews, Sigfried. Essays on Glencoe McGraw-Hill. The Stage “Angels in America.” A film by Brecht: Theater and Politics. and the School. Ohio: Mike Nichols, Avenue Pictures North Carolina: University of Glencoe/McGraw Hill, 2004. Productions, 2003. (352 min.) North Carolina Press, 1974. A textbook in theater training for Screen adaptation of Tony Brecht's works in English and both students and teachers, from Kushner's play. In six parts. essays on his works. classical training exercises, to www.amazon.com casting and directing plays. Vorlicky, Robert (ed.). Tony “Shalom, Ya'll.” A film by Brian Kushner In Conversation. Levithan, David and Billy Bain, Shalom Ya'll Films LLC, Michigan: University of Michigan Merrell. The Full Spectrum: A 2002. (60 min.) Press, 1998. A compilation of New Generation of Writing Bain, a Jewish documentary many Tony Kushner interviews from about Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, filmmaker from New Orleans the past decade. Transgender, Questioning, and explores his own Southern-Jewish Other Identities. New York: heritage and finds a rich history of ______Random House Children's Judaism in the South. ADULT FICTION Books, 2006. Includes poems and www.brandeis.edu/jewishfilm/Catal essays by young adults on a variety ogue/films/shalomyall.htm Busch, Charles. Whores of Lost of themes, including sexuality, Atlantis. New York: Hyperion, family and religion. “Trembling Before G-D.” A film 1993. A semi-autobiographical look by Sandi Simcha Dubowski. at life in New York’s performance Volavkova, Hana. I Never Saw Simcha Leib Productions, 2001. spaces, and the drama both on and Another Butterfly: Children's (84 min.) A documentary on the off the stage. Drawings & Poems from the lives of gay and lesbian Hasidic Terezin Concentration Camp, Jews. Jaffe, Daniel M. The Limits of 1942-44. New York: McGraw- www.amazon.com Pleasure. New York: Southern Hill, 1971. Drawings and poems Tier Editions. Harrington Park from children in the Terezin Press, 2001. Dave Miller, a 40- concentration camp. something year old gay, Jewish man raised by his Holocaust survivor grandmother, is obsessed FICTION FOR with his dead family’s history and YOUNGER READERS with dangerous trysts with available men. Koja, Kathe. Talk. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. Lowenthal, Michael. The Same Kit finds his calling for acting while Embrace. New York: Dutton, performing in the controversial 1998. Twins Jacob and Jonathan school play, and struggles with his come from the same family and own sexuality through his world, but take different paths in relationship with his co-star. life, and their close relationship as children begins to unravel. Levithan, David. Wide Awake. New York: Random House Ortleb, Charles. Iron Peter: A Children's Books, 2006. Jimmy Year in the Mythopoetic Life of and Duncan take to the streets to New York City. New York: support a gay-Jewish presidential Rubicon Media, 1998 candidate, while also exploring their A satirical novel about a gay, New relationship with politics in America. Yorker, determined to expose the lies of the AIDS epidemic. Mamet, David. Bar Mitzvah. Pennsylvania: Diane Publishing ______Company, 1999. On the eve of his NONFICTION FOR Bar Mitzvah, a boy learns about life YOUNGER READERS from an old man and his watch.
Bentley, Nancy and Donna ______Guthrie. Putting on a Play: The FILMS/DOCUMENTARIES Young Playwright's Guide to Scripting, Directing, and “And the Band Played On.” A Performing. Millbrook Press, film by Robert Spottiswoode, 1996. A practical, step-by-step HBO Pictures, 1993. (141 min.) guide for putting together a play - An examination of the beginnings of from set design to casting. Includes the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco sample scripts. in the late 1970s. Based on the book of the same name by Randy Shilts. www.amazon.com