photo by: Bryan Derballa, New York Times
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An evening with
Tony Kushner
Palmer Commons
4.16.18 8:00pm
FREE ADMISSION
About
A ruminative musing on the nature of evil and other timeless complexities is coming to the Palmer Commons this April, and it’s not a show to miss. Brought to you by the University of Michigan's Lloyd Hall Scholar's Program, this production presents a unique opportunity to sample Tony Kushner’s provoking works. An American Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and screenwriter, Tony Kushner is responsible for some of the most insightful dramatic dialogue since the 1980s.
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“An evening with Tony Kushner” brings Ann Arbor a contemplative compilation of Kushner's plays curated by Michigan students, specially for this one-of-a-kind showcase. Politics, motherhood, sexuality, race, good, evil — Kushner leaves no stone unturned. And neither will we.
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Join us April 16th.
Plays
30
Books
14
Essays
11
4
Films
Tony Kushner
Actors
Talia Gothelf
Elia
Levitin
joel
Danilewitz
Caroline
dinome
"So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take pictures of it. You can make a film of it. But it's not the production. It's not the same thing."
-Tony Kushner
The Plays
Angels in America
A complex, often metaphorical, and at times symbolic examination of AIDS and homosexuality in America in the 1980s.
only we who guard the mystery shall be unhappy
First Lady Laura Bush gives a reading to Iraqi children just prior to the 2003 invasion as an angel watches over the proceedings.
A bright room called day
A group of friends caught up in the events of the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in the 1930s.
Homebody kabul
A bored, emotionally imprisoned but intellectual Englishwoman, finds escape in the alternate world of Afghanistan.
Venue
Free Admission
Palmer Commons:
The Forum
Head to main elevators outside the cafe.