Tony Kushner

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Tony Kushner (né le 16 juillet 1956) est un dramaturge américain, plus connu pour sa pièce de théâtre Angels in America, pour laquelle il a reçu le prix Pulitzer.

Il est né dans une famille juive à Manhattan, mais ses parents, William Kushner et Sylvia (Deutscher) Kushner, deux musiciens classiques, ont déménagé à Lake Charles, en Louisiane après son naissance. Kushner lui-même a déménagé à New York en 1974 pour aller à l'Université Columbia, où il a reçu son diplôme en littérature anglaise en 1978. Après, il a étudié pour être réalisateur à New York University, où il a reçu son magistère en 1984.

En avril de 2003, il a épousé avec son partenaire de longtemps, un rédacteur d'Entertainment Weekly, Mark Harris, à New York. C'était le premier mariage homosexuel qui ait jamais ete autant commente dans la colonne de vœux de mariage au New York Times.

[modifier] Pièces de Théâtre

The Age of Assassins, 1982
La Fin de la Baleine: An Opera for the Apocalypse, 1983
The Umbrella Oracle, 1984
Last Gasp at the Cataract, 1984
Yes, Yes, No, No: The Solace-of-Solstice, Apogee/Perigee, Bestial/Celestial Holiday Show, 1987
Stella, 1987.
A Bright Room Called Day, 1985
The Heavenly Theatre, 1986
In Great Eliza's Golden Time, 1986.
Hydriotaphia, 1987
The Illusion, 1988
In That Day, 1989
Widows'', 1991
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part One: Millennium Approaches, 1992.
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part Two: Perestroika, produced in New York City, 1992.
Slavs! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness, 1995.
Reverse Transcription: Six Playwrights Bury a Seventh, A Ten-Minute Play That's Nearly Twenty Minutes Long, Louisville, Humana Festival of New American Plays, 1996
A Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds, 1997
The Good Person of Szechuan, 1997
Love's Fire: Seven New Plays Inspired by Seven Shakespearean Sonnets, 1998.
Terminating, or Lass Meine Schmerzen Nicht Verloren Sein, or Ambivalence, 1998
Henry Box Brown, 1998.
Homebody/Kabul, 2001.
Caroline or Change (musical), 2002.
Only We Who Guard The Mystery Shall Be Unhappy, 2003.

[modifier] Livres

A Meditation from Angels in America, Harper San Francisco, 1994.
Thinking about the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness: Essays, a Play, Two Poems, and a Prayer, Theatre Communications Group (New York, NY), 1995.
Howard Cruse, Stuck Rubber Baby, introduction by Kushner (New York: Paradox Press, 1995).
David B. Feinberg, Queer and Loathing: Rants and Raves of a Raging AIDS Clone, introduction by Kushner (New York: Penguin, 1995).
David Wojnarowicz, The Waterfront Journals, edited by Amy Scholder, introduction by Kushner (New York: Grove, 1996).
"Three Screeds from Key West: For Larry Kramer," in We Must Love One Another or Die: The Life and Legacies of Larry Kramer, edited by Lawrence D. Mass (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997), pp. 191-199.
Moises Kaufman, Gross Indecency, afterword by Kushner (New York: Vintage, 1997), pp. 135-143.
Plays by Tony Kushner (New York: Broadway Play Publishing, 1999). Includes:
A Bright Room called Day
The Illusion
Slavs! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness
Death & Taxes: Hydriotaphia, and Other Plays, Theatre Communications Group (New York, NY), 2000. Includes:
Reverse transcription
Hydriotaphia: or the Death of Dr. Browne, (adaptation of Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (A fictitious, imaginary account of Sir Thomas Browne's character not based upon fact)
G. David Schine in Hell
Notes on Akiba
Terminating
East Coast Ode to Howard Jarvis
Brundibar, illustrated by Maurice Sendak, Hyperion Books for Children, 2003.
The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the Present, 2003
Save Your Democratic Soul!: Rants, Screeds, and Other Public Utterances
Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, with Alisa Solomon, Grove, 2003.

[modifier] Autres chefs d'œuvre

La Fin de la Baleine: An Opera for the Apocalypse, (opéra) 1983
St. Cecilia or The Power of Music, (le libretto pour l'opéra)
Caroline or Change, (a musical)
Brundibar, (adaptation de l'opéra de Hans Krása avec Maurice Sendak)
Munich, film de Steven Spielberg (2005) - scénario

[modifier] Articles

"The Secrets of Angels," New York Times, 27 March 1994, p. H5.
"The State of the Theatre," Times Literary Supplement, 28 April 1995, p. 14.
"The Theater of Utopia," Theater, 26 (1995): 9-11.
"The Art of the Difficult," Civilization, 4 (August/September 1997): 62-67.
"Notes About Political Theater," Kenyon Review, 19 (Summer/Fall 1997): 19-34.
"Wings of Desire," Premiere, October 1997: 70.
"Fo's Last Laugh--I," Nation, 3 November 1997: 4-5.
"A Modest Proposal," American Theatre, January 1998: 20-22, 77-89.
"A Word to Graduates: Organize!," Nation, 1 July 2002.
"Only We Who Guard The Mystery Shall Be Unhappy," Nation, 24 March 2003.

[modifier] Interviews

Gerard Raymond, "Q & A With Tony Kushner," Theatre Week (20-26 December 1993): 14-20.
Mark Marvel, "A Conversation with Tony Kushner," Interview, 24 (February 1994): 84.
David Savran, "Tony Kushner," in Speaking on Stage: Interviews with Contemporary American Playwrights, edited by Philip C. Kolin and Colby H. Kullman (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996), pp. 291-313.
Robert Vorlicky, ed., Tony Kushner in Conversation (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998).