The Theater of Tony Kushner

College in Crawfordsville, Indiana. He has published books on Al Jolson, Spencer Tracy, Eddie Cantor, and the history of commedia dell'arte in the twentieth century, In 1996, he staged the Indiana premiere of Angels inAmerica Part One: Millennium Approaches.

INTRODUCTION The Feathers and the Mirrors and the Smoke, The Great Work Begins: A Short Biography, Grief Pushes Outward: Yes Yes No No, CHAPTER ONE Past Heaven, through the Earth, to Hell: A Bright Room Called Day CHAPTER TWO The Progress of Death in the Land of Pure Delight: Hydriotaphia, or The Death of Dr. Browne CHAPTER THREE Troubling the Waters: Angels in America. A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, The Angel of History: Millennium Approaches, Living Past Hope: Perestroika, CHAPTER FOUR What Is to Be Done?: Slavs! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness CHAPTER FIVE Transformations and Convergences: Kushner's Adaptations, The Heart Chases Memory: The Illusion, A Play for Lovers: Stella, Give Me Meaning: St. Cecilia, or The Power of Music, Into the Desert: Grim(m), Between Two Worlds: A Dybbuk, For the World Must Be Happy: The Good Person of Setzuan, Waiting by the River: Widows CHAPTER SIX An Undoing World: Kushner's One-Acts, And Then You'll Know Suffering: It's an Undoing World or Why Should It Be Easy When It Can Be Hard? Notes on My Grandma for Actors, Dancers and a Band, Strategies of Resistance: Notes on Akiba, The Transmutation of Horror into Meaning: Reverse Transcription. Six Playwrights Bury a Seventh, A Ten-Minute Play That's Nearly Twenty Minutes Long, To Be with You Alone: Terminating, or Lass Meine Schmerzen Nicht Verloren Sein, or Ambivalence Swimming in Guilt: G. David Schine in Hell My Tight-Wound Soul: And the Torso Even More So Marvelous Dislocations: Home Body/Kabul CHAPTER SEVEN The Great Work Continues: Screenplays, Activism, and Future Projects Collective Expression: East Coast Ode to Howard Jarvis, Never Oh Never Oh Never Forget: Caroline, or Change, Forget Not the Unhappy: Henry Box Brown, or The Mirror of Slavery, Pessimism of the Intellect: Politics and Activism, Optimism of the Will: Future Projects