Pulitzer-winning playwright to visit Louisville; related events set
September 18th, 2007
An Evening with Tony Kushner
Oct. 11, 6 p.m.
Spectrum Building, 911 S. Brook St.
Admission is free and open to the public
The University of Louisville will present a public interview with the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Angels in America” playwright Tony Kushner.
Russell Vandenbroucke, UofL theatre arts professor and chair, will interview Kushner and moderate a question-and-answer session.
Kushner’s October visit is part of The Life of the Mind Series of ongoing public events established during the centennial of UofL's College of Arts and Sciences.
Kushner’s Pulitzer-winning play, “Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches,” also will be performed at UofL Nov. 14–18 in The Playhouse. For tickets, call 502-852-6814.
All UofL English, humanities, theatre arts and women’s and gender studies majors received the “Angels” play to study this year through the “Book in Common” program. Two public discussions are set in conjunction with that work:
- Sept. 28, “The Angel of History in the Work of Tony Kushner,” UofL English professor Andrew Rabin, noon, Room 300, Bingham Humanities Building.
- Oct. 18, “Beginning the Great Work: ‘Angels in America’s’ Call to (In)Action,” UofL English professor Karen Kopelson, 1 p.m., Room 300, Bingham Humanities Building.
Kushner’s 1993 Pulitzer for drama is in addition to an Emmy, Obie and two Tony awards and honors from the New York Drama Critics Circle and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Besides the “Angels” two-part epic, Kushner’s plays include “Caroline, or Change,” “A Bright Room Called Day” and “Slavs!,” which premiered in Louisville at the 1994 Humana Festival of New American Plays. He co-wrote the screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s “Munich.”
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An Evening with Tony Kushner
