Beyond tears

Angels in America, Parts 1 and 2 Belvoir, June 1. Until July 27 The world only spins forward, Tony Kushner likes to remind us in his two-part, seven-hour epic, revived in Sydney in its complete form for the first time since it debuted at the Sydney ...

Asked about how he originally felt working on such a daunting topic as the 16th president of the United States, Kushner admits that he was initially reluctant to take on the project: It seemed like an imponderably difficult subject, and the level of ...

Twenty years ago, a gay Mormon character stepped onstage for the first time. His name was Joe Pitt, and he was in Tony Kushners Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches. Pitt lived in New York. He had a good reputation and a bad marriage ...

NEW YORK David Mamet has his hustlers, Edward Albee his domestic warriors, Tony Kushner his brilliant self-flagellators. If playwright Christopher Shinn has a signature character, it is the manipulative victim the half-sympathetic, half-deplorable ...

Lapham's Quarterly (Editor and Publisher Lewis Lapham) announced today their annual gala, the DECADES BALL: The 1950s, will take place on Monday, June 3 at Capitale (130 Bowery at Grand Street). Jane and Morley Safer are Benefit Chairs and Oskar ...

...and being Roy Cohn in Tony Kushner's epic play How did Tom Robbins put it? asks Marcus Graham, laughing. Didn't he say that autumn is when death sings in the shower? I feel like that at the moment. Graham has seen a lot of death in recent years ...

On Monday, May 13 Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for Theatre honored Ruth and Stephen Hendel and Ming Cho Lee at their Gala Evening. The evening was held at the Angel Orensanz Foundation (172 Norfolk Street) in New ...

Here are some literary events to pencil in your calendar. To get your event posted on our calendar, visit our page. Please post your event at least one week prior to its date. New Yorker editor Ben Greenman along with appearances by Sam Lipsyte, ...

The United States is undergoing a design revolution. Led by consumer electronics, most notably the iPhone's introduction in 2007, the average citizen has been trained to expect thoughtful and sophisticated objects in their everyday lives. This ...