Wednesday, August 4, 2010

New Kushner Play at the Public Next Spring

"Tony Kushner’s latest play, “The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures,” his first epic-size work about American life since his Pulitzer Prize-winning “Angels in America” in the early 1990s, will have its New York premiere next spring in a co-production by the Public Theater and the Signature Theater Company, the two theaters announced Monday.

The play, which explores politics, marriage, sex, radicalism and the labor movement under the roof of a retired longshoreman’s Brooklyn brownstone, was first produced under a commission from the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis as part of a festival of Kushner plays last year. Michael Greif (“Rent,” “Next to Normal”) directed the Guthrie production, as he will the new one, which will run in the Public’s 299-seat Newman Theater from March 22 to June 12, 2011. The production is expected to cost slightly less than $1 million, with the Public and the Signature, both not-for-profit companies, sharing the cost."
Weird, I never heard this reviewed. I'll have to track one down...

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