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In 2003, he wrote the lyrics and book to the musical Caroline, or Change which earned Kushner Tony Award nominations for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score. The 2021 Broadway revival of Caroline, or Change earned Kushner a nomination for the 2023 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album .
Tony Kushner is an American dramatist who became one of the most highly acclaimed playwrights of his generation after the debut of his two-part play Angels in America (1990, 1991). Kushner grew up in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and attended Columbia University and New York University.
Tony Kushner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter and producer. He is known for his works such as Angels in America, Lincoln, Munich and West Side Story.
30 Nov 2021 · CENTRAL PARK LIES adjacent to the Upper West Side of “West Side Story,” where, six decades of urban renewal and gentrification later, Kushner lives with his husband, the film historian and ...
29 Mac 2023 · Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and activist Tony Kushner discusses his identity, his collaborations with Stephen Spielberg, and his views on art and empathy in a Harvard event. He also shares his insights on Shakespeare, anti-Semitism, and the importance of experiencing “unsafe” art in the theater.
Tony Kushner. Writer: West Side Story. Tony Kushner's play "Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes" earned him the Pulitzer Prize, among many other awards. His other acclaimed plays include "Slavs", "Homebody/Kabul" and "Caroline, or Change". He has collaborated with children's author and illustrator Maurice Sendak on several books.
9 Dis 2021 · A notorious history buff—Spielberg says Kushner read 400 books on Abraham Lincoln while writing the screenplay for Lincoln— Kushner culled through countless primary and secondary documents ...
