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Playwright Kushner To Be Honored At Guthrie Theater
by The Associated Press
Posted: March 21, 2008 - 4:00 pm ET
(Minneapolis, Minnesota) The Guthrie Theater is
getting a lot more Kushner into its lineup next season.
The Guthrie
said it will produce Tony Kushner's musical, "Caroline,
or Change," as well as a collection of the Pulitzer
Prize-winning playwright's short plays as part of its 2008-09
season.
The theater
announced last fall that it had commissioned a new Kushner
play, tentatively titled "The Intelligent Homosexual's
Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the
Scriptures."
All three
Kushner productions will be staged simultaneously in spring
2009. The Guthrie will also organize a series of speakers,
scholars and other special events to examine Kushner's work.
And the theater will collaborate with the University of
Minnesota on a spring-semester course about the playwright.
"Tony
is one of the most important voices in American theater today
and it's appropriate and exciting to be able to devote the
Guthrie's talent and resources to producing three of his plays
simultaneously," theater director Joe Dowling said in a
statement.
Kushner won
a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for "Millennium
Approaches," the first half of his two-part "Angels
in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes," which
offers a look at AIDS and gay life in the 1980s. "Angels
in America" was later made into an HBO film. He has won
an Emmy and two Tony Awards.
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