Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner

Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner

Part One of the two-part Angels in America, an epic drama set during the Reagan years in America - now recognised as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century.

'One of the greatest plays of the 20th century'

* New York Observer *

'The most ambitious American play of our time'

* Newsweek *

'A vast, miraculous play, a true millennial work of art'

* New York Times *

'A victory for the theatre, for the transforming power of the imagination to turn devastation into beauty'

* The New Yorker *

'Something dark, rare and harrowing has erupted upon the London stage'

* Evening Standard *

Tony Kushner is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Tony Kushner's other plays include A Bright Room Called Day; Hydriotaphia, or The Death of Dr. Brown; The Illusion, adapted from the play by Pierre Corneille; Slavs!; Homebody/Kabul; Caroline, or Change, a musical with composer Jeanine Tesori; The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures; and The Visit, adapted from the play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. His translations include S. Y. Ansky's The Dybbuk; Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Sezuan and Mother Courage and Her Children; and the libretto for Hans Krása and Adolf Hoffmeister's Brundibár, a children's opera for which he wrote a curtain-raiser, But the Giraffe! He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols's film of Angels in America and for Steven Spielberg's Munich and Lincoln. His books include The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the Present; Brundibar, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak; and Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, co-edited with Alisa Solomon. Among many honours, Kushner is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, two Evening Standard Awards, an Olivier Award, an Emmy Award, two Oscar nominations, and the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2012, he was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781854591562
ISBN 10	1854591568
Title	Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches
Author	Tony Kushner
Series	Nhb Modern Plays
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Nick Hern Books
Year published	1992-02-13
Number of pages	204
Prizes	Winner of Best New Play, Critics' Circle Theatre Awards 1992, Winner of Best Play, Evening Standard Awards 1992, Winner of Best Play, Tony Awards 1993, Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1993
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