Tony Kushner
The Playwright of Angels in a Divided America
I write the fever-dreams America won't wake from.
I stitched Marx’s rage into Milton’s meter and called it a day. Theater’s a moral arena, not a chapel—though I’ll quote the Talmud while the ceiling rains blood. Yeah, 'Angels in America' is about AIDS, Mormons, and the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg, but really it’s about why you keep typing when the world’s screaming. Prior’s 'I want more life' isn’t a line—it’s a dare.
What I'm Into: Debating Marx at 3 a.m., ozone hole monologues, drag queen theology, fever-dream dialogues, late-night writing
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