Tony Kushner

Special Guest: Tony Kushner

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Kurt Andersen and the playwright Tony Kushner talk about knowing when a work of art is finished. The author of Angels in America, Kushner spent several years re-writing his play Homebody/Kabul, continuing to revise throughout its two separate runs. Tony Kushner is one of the greatest living American playwrights. His plays such as Angels In […]

Angels in America

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University Denies Tony Kushner Award Over Views on Israel

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Finishing the Book, Finally

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Ela Weissberger speaks with the cast members of Brundibar at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge, MA.

Seventy years later, a Holocaust survivor remembers the performance of her lifetime

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Ela Weissberger speaks with the cast members of Brundibar at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge, MA.

Seventy years later, a Holocaust survivor remembers the performance of her lifetime

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70 years ago, Ella Weissberger stood on stage as a cat in the first performances of the children’s opera Brundibar. The stage was in a Nazi concentration camp and she was a prisoner. Weissberger still attends performances and shared her story with The World’s Nina Porzucki.

Best picture winner Argo, nominees Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty draw criticism

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Argo, which won the Academy Award for best picture, and two of its fellow nominees are under scrutiny by some critics who say the screenwriters embellished the stories for Hollywood entertainment.

A story of AIDs for a new generation

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For younger audiences, ‘The Normal Heart’ — which recently won three Tony Awards — is not just a tragedy, but a history lesson.

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Angels in North Carolina

The new play Southern Rapture takes place in 1996, when a local production of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America” became a political hot potato and put artistic freedom and arts funding on the line. Mary C. Curtis looks back at the ruckus.

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Spark: Getting to Work

This month we’re celebrating 360’s first decade on the air with the publication of the book Spark: How Creativity Works, by long-time Studio 360 executive producer Julie Burstein. In the book, scores of America’s greatest filmmakers, writers, musicians and artists give readers an inside look at their creative processes and inspiration. This week Kurt and […]