Monthly Archives: June 2016
Angels in America: The Complete Oral History
Isaac Butler and Dan Kois have published a remarkable oral history in Slate of how Tony Kushner’s ANGELS IN AMERICA became “the defining work of American art of the past 25 years.”
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Recently I had the great pleasure of experiencing my play Hunting and Gathering at Rep Stage in Columbia, Maryland, ten years after I initially wrote it. It was great fun revisiting the source material as I’m currently married and raising a child, theoretically stable (although we did just move last summer), and in very different circumstances. Hunting and Gathering is a comedy about rootlessness, four characters who for different reasons are between housing options and figuring out their logistical and emotional/spiritual homes. When I wrote it, I myself was living in much this way. I’d been happily settled in…
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