Sunday, March 23, 2008

• Gay Playwright Kushner To Be Honored At Guthrie Theater

  (Minneapolis, Minnesota) The Guthrie Theater is getting a lot more Kushner into its lineup next season.

  The Guthrie said it will produce Tony Kushner's musical, "Caroline, or Change," as well as a collection of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's short plays as part of its 2008-09 season.

  The theater announced last fall that it had commissioned a new Kushner play, tentatively titled "The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures."

  All three Kushner productions will be staged simultaneously in spring 2009. The Guthrie will also organize a series of speakers, scholars and other special events to examine Kushner's work. And the theater will collaborate with the University of Minnesota on a spring-semester course about the playwright.

  "Tony is one of the most important voices in American theater today and it's appropriate and exciting to be able to devote the Guthrie's talent and resources to producing three of his plays simultaneously," theater director Joe Dowling said in a statement.

  Kushner won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for "Millennium Approaches," the first half of his two-part "Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes," which offers a look at AIDS and gay life in the 1980s. "Angels in America" was later made into an HBO film. He has won an Emmy and two Tony Awards.

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