"along with high school students excelling in the Essay Contest. Tony Jannus Award The Tony Jannus Award recognizes outstanding individual achievement in scheduled commercial aviation by airline executives, inventors and manufacturers, and government leaders. The award is conferred annually by the Tony Jannus Distinguished Aviation Society and was first bestowed in 1964 in Tampa, Florida, U.S. Its namesake, aviation pioneer Tony Jannus (1889–October 12, 1916), piloted the inaugural flight of the St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line on January 1, 1914, the first scheduled commercial airline flight in the world using heavier-than-air aircraft. In addition to preserving the legacy of Tony Jannus,"
"play and comments on the modern parallels of the play in contrast to the parallels made to 1985. The production was directed by David Warshofsky. A Bright Room Called Day A Bright Room Called Day is a play by American playwright Tony Kushner, author of ""Angels in America"". The play is set in Germany in 1932 and 1933, and concerns a group of friends caught up in the events of the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. The plot is centered on a woman named Agnes Eggling, a middle-aged"
"A Bright Room Called Day A Bright Room Called Day is a play by American playwright Tony Kushner, author of ""Angels in America"". The play is set in Germany in 1932 and 1933, and concerns a group of friends caught up in the events of the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. The plot is centered on a woman named Agnes Eggling, a middle-aged actress, and all of the action takes place in her apartment. The action is occasionally interrupted by scenes featuring Zillah, a young woman in the"
"nether regions. The play is noted for its similarity with Kushner's 1993 hit """" due to the appearance of Roy Cohn, the characteristic ""mixture of history, fantasy, and outrageous humor"", and the ""depiction of the traditional battles between the twentieth century's conservative and liberal political poles"". G. David Schine in Hell G. David Schine in Hell is a one-act play written by Tony Kushner. It was first published in the ""New York Times Magazine"" in 1996 under the title ""A Backstage Pass to Hell"". It was published as a part of the Kushner anthology ""Death and Taxes: Hydriotaphia and Other"
"by Tony Kushner, an American playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize. In a lengthy article in ""Maclean's"" magazine in January 2006, Jonas wrote about the development of the book, for which he was commissioned by publishers who had heard Avner's story, and the years-long process of it being developed as a feature film. He felt that the film ""Munich"" suggests that there is little difference between terrorism and counter-terrorism, and thus Spielberg's movie had a spirit opposite to that of his book. In the article, Jonas notes that the world and opinions about allowable actions and grievances has changed in"
"on to direct two of his adaptations of ""The Dybbuk"" (""Toy Show"" and ""Shekhina: The Bride"") at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in the early 1970s. Katz's 1984 essay, ""The Compleat Dramaturg,"" has become a standard text on dramaturgy. His final book, ""Cleaning Augean Stables: Examining Drama's Strategies"", was published in 2012. Katz was a contributing dramaturg to Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Angels in America. Leon Katz Leon Katz (July 10, 1919 - January 23, 2017) was professor emeritus of drama at Yale University. He was a playwright, dramaturg, and scholar. Katz was best known for his interviews with"
"Eustis, then its dramaturg, and Tony Taccone, then its artistic director, commissioned a play from Tony Kushner. Eustis had seen Kushner's play ""A Bright Room Called Day"" in New York. The contract specified it should run no more than 2 hours, and include songs. With help from a $50,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, it eventually turned into ""Angels in America"", two three-and-a-half hour plays with no songs. In 1991 the company staged the world premiere of the first part, ""Millennium Approaches"" and staged readings of the second part, ""Perestroika"", which was still being written. The cost"
"writers Tony Kushner (""Angels in America""), Paula Vogel (""How I Learned to Drive)"", Lanford Wilson (""Talley's Folly)"", Sam Shepard (""Buried Child""), and Edward Albee ""(A Delicate Balance)"" credit Fornés as an inspiration and influence. ""Her work has no precedents; it isn't derived from anything,"" Lanford Wilson once said of her, ""she's the most original of us all."" Paula Vogel contends: ""In the work of every American playwright at the end of the 20th century, there are only two stages: before she has read Maria Irene Fornes and after."" Tony Kushner concludes: ""Every time I listen to Fornes, or read or"
"mid-2005. The opera made its US debut in June 2006 at the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion in Boston, Massachusetts. The text of Prior Walter's soliloquy from Scene 5 of ""Perestroika"" was set to music by Michael Shaieb for a 2009 festival celebrating Kushner's work at the Guthrie Theater. The work was commissioned by the Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus, which had commissioned Shaieb's ""Through A Glass, Darkly"" in 2008. The work premiered at the Guthrie in April 2009. ""Angels in America"" received numerous awards, including the 1993 and 1994 Tony Awards for Best Play. The play's first part, ""Millennium Approaches"", received"
"Owls"" and ""Incidents and Occurrences During the Travels of the Tailor Max"") and plays by Shakespeare (""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" and ""The Tempest"") starring the children attending the Governor's Program for Gifted Children (GPGC) in Lake Charles. Kushner has received several honorary degrees: in 2003 from Columbia College Chicago; in 2006 an honorary doctorate from Brandeis University, in 2008 an honorary Doctor of Letters from SUNY Purchase College, in May 2011 an honorary doctorate from CUNY's John Jay College of Criminal Justice and also an Honorary Doctorate from The New School, and in May 2015, an honorary Doctor of Letters"
"Great American Play Contest, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the NEA, the Writer's Award from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, the Berilla Kerr Award for playwrighting, and the NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Grant. McLaughlin is also an actress, having worked on and Off Broadway as well as extensively in regional theater. She is most well known for having originated the part of the Angel in Tony Kushner's ""Angels in America"", appearing in every U.S. production from its earliest workshops through its Broadway run. Other favorite roles include The Homebody in ""Homebody/Kabul"" (Intiman Theater, Seattle), Pirate Jenny in ""Threepenny Opera"" (Trinity Rep. Elliot"
"G. David Schine in Hell G. David Schine in Hell is a one-act play written by Tony Kushner. It was first published in the ""New York Times Magazine"" in 1996 under the title ""A Backstage Pass to Hell"". It was published as a part of the Kushner anthology ""Death and Taxes: Hydriotaphia and Other Plays"" in 2000 by the Theatre Communications Group. The play centers on G. David Schine, who arrives in Hell, described as resembling a ""dinner theater in Orange County California"", and is re-united with Roy Cohn, Richard Nixon, Whittaker Chambers, and J. Edgar Hoover. Many of the"
"the audience, affirming his intentions to live on and telling them that ""the Great Work"" shall continue. The play is written for eight actors, each of whom plays two or more roles. Kushner's doubling, as indicated in the published script, requires several of the actors to play the opposite gender. ""Angels in America"" was commissioned by the Eureka Theatre in San Francisco, by co-artistic directors Oskar Eustis and Tony Taccone. It was first performed in Los Angeles as a workshop in May 1990 by the Center Theatre Group at the Mark Taper Forum. ""Millennium Approaches"" premiered in May 1991 in"
"first production of Tony Kushner’s ""Angels in America: Millennium Approaches"", and the first staged presentation of ""Perestroika"", both at the Eureka Theatre in San Francisco, which received seven Bay Area Theatre Critics’ Awards, including best direction and best production. Other world premieres include Suzan-Lori Parks’ ""In the Blood"" for the Public Theater, and Part 1 of Tony Kushner’s ""Homebody/Kabul"" for the Chelsea Center in London. Recent productions directed by Esbjornson include the Maria Irene Fornes plays ""Mud"" and ""Drowning"" for the Signature Theatre; ""Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"", ""Hedda Gabler"", ""Summer and Smoke"" and ""The Great Gatsby"" for the Guthrie"
"Tony nominee Jeanine Tesori, as well as with costume designer Marina Draghici, and the myriad artisans and prop creators who support the production behind the scenes. The play’s director, George C. Wolfe, discusses his own motivations and intentions for the piece, while playwright Tony Kushner describes his lifelong admiration for Brecht and his struggle to create a new translation of the playbook for this production. Oskar Eustis], the Creative Director of the Public Theater, also chimes in, sharing how Brecht’s political commitment informed his writing, and how these works can inspire change in America’s social context today. Brecht’s own remarkable"
"hired a new artistic director, Elizabeth Huddle, who served for the next six years, succeeded in 1993 by Warner Shook. In 1994, Intiman became the first regional theatre company in the country to be awarded the rights to produce Tony Kushner's Tony- and Pulitzer-winning two-part epic ""Angels in America"". ""Part One: Millennium Approaches"" closed Intiman's 1994 season, and ""Part Two: Perestroika"" opened the 1995 season. Directed by Shook, the complete ""Angels in America"" was the most commercially successful production ever to be produced at the theatre, reaching more than 63,000 attendees over its two-year run. Over the next decade, Intiman"
"Tony Kushner have all won Pulitzer Prizes for their polemical plays on American society. The United States is also the home and largest exporter of modern musical theater, producing such musical talents as Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, George and Ira Gershwin, Kander and Ebb, and Stephen Sondheim. Broadway is one of the largest theater communities in the world and is the epicenter of American commercial theater. American music styles and influences (such as rock and roll, jazz, rock, techno, soul, country, hip-hop, blues) and music based on them can be heard all"
"the play. ""I gave him the play to read,"" Pinter recalled. ""I waited in another room. About two hours later, I heard the front door slam. I thought, Well, here we are. He doesn't like it. About an hour later, the doorbell rang. I answered it. He said, 'I had to get some air.' He said, 'It is your best.' "" Productions of the play have won major theatre awards. For example, the 1967 New York production received four Tony Awards: the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play (Paul Rogers), the Tony Award for"
"received 11 Tony nominations and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical. Two years later, Wolfe directed Tony Kushner's ""Angels in America: Millennium Approaches"" to great critical acclaim, as well as a Tony award. Wolfe also directed the world premiere of the second part of ""Angels"", entitled ""Perestroika"", the following year. From 1993 to 2004, Wolfe served as artistic director and producer of the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater, where in 1996 he created the musical ""Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk"", an ensemble of tap and music starring Savion Glover; the show moved"
"share a love of poetic dialogue and theatricality. The play takes place in the Seventeenth Century in the dark cave of the Magician Alcandre, near Remulac, a small town in the south of France. ""The Illusion"" is published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc. in the collection ""Plays By Tony Kushner"" as well as in an acting edition. Wolfe, Graham. “Tony Kushner’s The Illusion and Comedy’s ‘Traversal of the Fantasy’.” ""Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism"" 26.1 (2011): 45–64. Kushner, Tony. ""Plays By Tony Kushner"". Kushner, Tony (12/31/2003). ""The Illusion"". Broadway Play Publishing Inc. The Illusion (play) The Illusion is a"
"of Deputies, in ""The Nation"", award-winning dramatist and essayist Tony Kushner and academic journalist and critic Alisa Solomon, both Jewish American critics of modern Israeli politics, wrote: ""We emphatically disagree. We think Churchill's play should be seen and discussed as widely as possible... To see anti-Semitism here is to construe erroneously the words spoken by the worst of Churchill's characters as a statement from the playwright about all Jews as preternaturally filled with a viciousness unique among humankind. But to do this is, again, to distort what Churchill wrote."" Charlotte Higgins, ""The Guardian""s chief arts writer, defended the work by"
"The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures is a 2009 play by American playwright Tony Kushner. The title was inspired by George Bernard Shaw's ""The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism"" and Mary Baker Eddy's ""Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"". The world premiere was directed by Michael Greif at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, opening on May 15, 2009 in previews and running through June 28. The Public Theater and the Signature Theater Company co-produced"
"to observe that the ""operatic cacophony at times skates precipitously close to the razor's edge of incoherence."" The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures is a 2009 play by American playwright Tony Kushner. The title was inspired by George Bernard Shaw's ""The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism"" and Mary Baker Eddy's ""Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"". The world premiere was directed by Michael Greif at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, opening on May 15,"
"was ""At least I never voted Republican."" Kushner and his spouse Mark Harris held a commitment ceremony in April 2003, the first same-sex commitment ceremony to be featured in the Vows column of ""The New York Times"". Harris is an editor of ""Entertainment Weekly"" and author of ""Pictures at a Revolution – Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood"". In summer 2008, Kushner and Harris were legally married at the city hall in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The stage performance rights to most of these plays are licensed by Broadway Play Publishing Inc. Tony Kushner Anthony Robert Kushner (born July"
"court declare her a co-author of ""Rent"" and grant her 16% of the author's share of the royalties. Although she made her claim only after the show became a Broadway hit, the case is not without precedent. For instance, 15% of the royalties of ""Angels in America"" go to playwright Tony Kushner's dramaturge. On June 19, 1998, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the original court's ruling that Thomson was not entitled to be credited with co-authorship of ""Rent"" and that she was not entitled to royalties. The case was ultimately settled out of court"
"who gains light-based powers after being exposed to a genetic light bomb, in the animated web series """" on CW Seed. Tovey appeared in ""Crisis on Earth-X"", the Arrowverse crossover event between ""Supergirl"", ""Arrow"", ""The Flash"" and ""Legends of Tomorrow"". In April 2017, Tovey returned to the Royal National Theatre to appear in Marianne Elliot's revival of the Tony Kushner play ""Angels in America"", opposite Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane. In April 2018, Tovey was cast in the drama film ""The Good Liar"". Tovey is also an author, playwright and screenwriter. He has written three plays (all unperformed as of"
"University's Graduate Acting Program. Wood won a Tony Award in 1999 for Best Featured Actor in a Play for ""Side Man"". He played Bill in """" on Broadway. From September 14, 2010 to March 27, 2011, Wood starred as the character Roy Cohn in the acclaimed off-Broadway revival of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play ""Angels in America"" staged by the Signature Theatre Company in Manhattan. Wood played Gary Lucas in ""Greetings from Tim Buckley"", a film on Tim and Jeff Buckley, which premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. In 2016, Wood played the Night Clerk in Eugene O'Neill's"
"the American Theatre and a four-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He is also a winner of the William Inge Festival's ""Otis Guernsey New Voices Playwriting Award"", the Todd McNerney National Playwriting Prize at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, the Orlin Corey Medallion for Sustained Excellence from the Children's Theatre Foundation of America, and the Charlotte B. Chorpenning Playwright Award for Distinguished Body of Work. Three of his plays have received the Distinguished Play Award from the American Alliance for Theatre & Education. His plays have been developed and workshopped at Robert Redford's Sundance Institute Lab, the Eugene O'Neill"
"portrayal of Joe Pitt in the first Broadway production of Tony Kushner's ""Angels in America"". The role earned him a 1994 Tony Award nomination as Best Actor (Featured Role – Play). In 1998, Grant began a career as a writer. His first play, ""Snakebit"", premiered at NYC's Grove Street Playhouse and subsequently transferred to the Century Theatre. The play was nominated for the 1999 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play and was also nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award. His second play, ""Current Events"", was produced by Manhattan Theatre Club in 2000. His most recent play, ""Pen"", opened in"
"won the New York State Council on the Arts Playwriting Award for his play ""Burning Bright"". His plays have been published by Random House, Grove Press and Samuel French Inc.. Kessler's play ""Orphans"" has been made into a film of the same name. Directed by Alan J. Pakula, the film version of ""Orphans"" starred Matthew Modine and Albert Finney. He has also written: Kessler and his wife, actress Margaret Ladd, are founders of the Imagination Workshop located at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. This workshop brings together actors, writers and directors who create scenes and original plays to be performed by"
"of which, ""Internet Cafe"" (2002) has also been turned into a movie screenplay. ""Be Worth It"" (2003) was acclaimed by both the Royal Court and the Soho Theatre in London, but perhaps his most successful play is ""Ledgers"" (2003), a one-act comedy taking as its theme the subject of depression and suicide, which has been performed in both the UK and US. Gardner's Micro Fiction has won awards on both sides of the Atlantic, and has featured on the curriculum in a number of US high schools, as well as appearing on the Contemporary English syllabus at the University of"
"for five Tony Awards: Best Play, Best Featured Actor (Pat Hingle), Best Featured Actress (Eileen Heckart), Best Scenic Design (Ben Edwards), Best Director (Elia Kazan). Timmy Everett won a Theatre World Award. It was adapted into a film by the same name in 1960, directed by Delbert Mann, and starring Dorothy McGuire and Robert Preston. The Dark at the Top of the Stairs The Dark at the Top of the Stairs is a 1957 play by William Inge about family conflicts during the early 1920s in a small Oklahoma town. It was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play"
"started the Red Wing Company when he was sixteen with Stephan Muller. At the Public, Eustis directed the New York premieres of Rinne Groff’s ""Compulsion"" and ""The Ruby Sunrise"", Larry Wright’s ""The Human Scale"", and the 2008 Shakespeare in the Park production of ""Hamlet"". At Trinity Repertory Company he directed the world premiere of Paula Vogel’s ""The Long Christmas Ride Home"" in 2003 and Tony Kushner’s ""Homebody/Kabul"" in 2002, both recipients of the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production. While at the Eureka Theatre, he commissioned Tony Kushner’s ""Angels in America"", and directed its world premiere at the Mark Taper"