Tony Kushner

Dramatizes the effects of AIDS on the United States through the experiences of lawyer Roy Cohn, a Morman couple, and a young man called Prior Walter

A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

Angels in America

A revised and complete edition of this modern classic, featuring a new foreword from author Tony Kushner.

Revised and Complete Edition

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

A drama set in the last days of Weimar Germany examines a group of left-wing activists who realize they are losing to the Nazis

A Bright Room Called Day

Pierre Corneille

The Illusion

Nathan Lane

Lee Pace

Andrew Garfield

Susan Brown

Denise Gough

Nathan Stewart-Jarrett

Edie Falco

Beth Malone

James McArdle

Bobby Cannavale

This pioneering study of migrant journeys to Britain begins with Huguenot refugees in the 1680s and continues to asylum seekers and east European workers today. Analyzing the history and memory of migrant journeys, covering not only the response of politicians and the public but also literary and artistic representations, then and now, Kushner's volume sheds new light on the nature and construction of Britishness from the early modern era onwards. It is an essential tool for those wanting to understand why people come to Britain (or are denied entry) and how migrants have been viewed by state and society alike. The journeys covered vary from the famous (including the Empire Windrush in 1948) to the obscure, such as the Volga German transmigrants passing through Britain in the 1870s. While employing a broadly historical approach, Kushner incorporates insights from many other disciplines and employs a comparative methodology to highlight the importance of the symbolic as well as the physical nature of such journeys.

Migrant journeys, 1685 to the present

The Battle of Britishness

Gus Marcantonio, a retired longshoreman, summons his adult children home to the family's Brooklyn brownstone to discuss his recent decision to commit suicide. With his trademark mix of soaring intellect, searing emotion, and biting wit, legendary playwright Tony Kushner unfurls an epic tale of revolution, radicalism, family, love, sex, politics, real estate, unions and debts both unpaid and unpayable. With sweeping themes as hefty as its title, "IHo" (as it has been nicknamed) explores the dense and vexing issues that stem from the betrayal of a failed ideology and the challenges of family connectedness. This cerebral mammoth of a play asks what is left when the long-held belief systems that construct and inform one's identity prove to be empty.

The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures

Bertolt Brecht

A contemporary and lively translation of Brecht's classic play by Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright Tony Kushner.

Mother Courage and Her Children

Trinity Repertory Company

Oskar Eustis

In Repertory with Part I. Millennium Approaches. Perestroika

Jeanine Tesori

An award-winning musical that addresses contemporary questions of culture, community, race and class through the lens of the 1960s.

A Musical

Caroline, Or Change

Sholem Aleichem

Aliza Shevrin

In a small shtetl in Bessarabia in the early twentieth century, a traveling Yiddish acting company comes to town. The townspeople react in unison: "What is this? Actor-types? Comedians? Who needs them?" But for Reisel, daughter of a poor cantor, and Leibel, son of a rich man, the theatre is magic, and they immediately fall under its spell.Fleeing their small town, they run off together with the acting company but soon become separated from each other. Reisel goes on to become a star on the concert stage, and Leibel a sensation on the theatrical stage. They take new names - Reisel becoming Rosa Spivak, and Leibel becoming Leo Rafalesko - and repeatedly try to meet, but they are kept apart by their aspirations and successes, and by the interventions of a motley cast of impresarios, who exploit them for their own enrichment.They are wandering stars, shooting from stage to stage, from city to city, touring all the major European capitals and eventually reaching New York, a city of dreams shattered and fulfilled, of romance thwarted and consummated. It is the journey of a lifetime, a journey played out in every generation, and within every life, and Sholem Aleichem captures it with uncommon poignancy and richness, and with the humor, whimsy, and wistfulness that are his hallmarks.

Wandering Stars

Aninku and Pepicek find their mother sick one morning, they need to buy her milk to make her better. The brother and sister go to town to make money by singing. But a hurdy-gurdy grinder, Brundibar, chases them away. They are helped by three talking animals and three hundred schoolchildren, to defeat the bully. Brundibar is based on a Czech opera for children that was performed fifty-five times by the children of Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp in 1943.

Brundibar

Katharine Knox

This is a study of the history of global refugee movements over the 20th century, ranging from east European Jews fleeing Tsarist oppression at the turn of the century to asylum seekers from the former Zaire and Yugoslavia. Recognizing that the problem of refugees is a universal one, the authors emphasize the human element which should be at the forefront of both the study of refugees and responses to them.

Global, National and Local Perspectives during the Twentieth Century

Refugees in an Age of Genocide

A remarkable collection of new work by the author of Angels in America.

Hydriotaphia and Other Plays

Death and Taxes

Revised Version

Homebody/Kabul

The first collection of writings from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America. Includes Slavs!

Essays, A Play, Two Poems and a Prayer

Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness

Kenneth Lunn

Historical Perspectives on Fascism and Race Discourse in Britain

Traditions of Intolerance

Immigration to Britain has rarely achieved the levels experienced by the US, but it is nevertheless true of all periods that immigrants, refugees and soujourners have been continually present'. While we may have the beginnings of a history of immigration, ethnicity and race in Britain, there is a lack of historiographical awareness in the subject. The essays in this collection, ranging from specific case studies to broad themes, are an attempt to provide a basis for future discussion.

Tony Kushner

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