The Theater of Tony Kushner is a comprehensive portrait of the life and work of one of America's most important contemporary playwrights.
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The Theater of Tony Kushner: Living Past Hope is an insightful and thorough examination of the Kushner canon. In it James Fisher illuminates the renowned playwrights works and influential aspects of his life and career, smartly capitalizing upon readers familiarity with Kushners hit play Angels in America by using it as a basis for comparison with his other works....
–Mary L. Cutler, University of North Dakata Modern Drama, Spring 2002
Fishers volume...makes abundantly clear through sheer information that the relationship between Kushner and Brecht is begging to be explored within the German Studies classroom and scholarship.
–Norman Roessler
This book is a must for anyone interested in the theater and for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of Kushner, the man and the writer. While Fishers research is exhaustive and his analysis deep and probing, his work is accessible and enjoyable. Fisher is that rare scholar whose work is meaningful yet doesnt intentionally confound its readers in an attempt to appear legitimate.
–Gay Peoples Chronicle
The great virtue of this book is Fishers attempt to present Kushner not as a gay playwright but as one of the prominent political dramatists in the US today.
–CHOICE
A valuable book for anyone interested in American drama...offering crisp explications and fact-filled stage histories of Kushners varied canon. ... My vote is for James Fisher to write the continuing history of Kushners prolific and prophetic theater. No one is more qualified.
–World Literature Today
–Mary L. Cutler, University of North Dakata Modern Drama, Spring 2002
Fishers volume...makes abundantly clear through sheer information that the relationship between Kushner and Brecht is begging to be explored within the German Studies classroom and scholarship.
–Norman Roessler
This book is a must for anyone interested in the theater and for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of Kushner, the man and the writer. While Fishers research is exhaustive and his analysis deep and probing, his work is accessible and enjoyable. Fisher is that rare scholar whose work is meaningful yet doesnt intentionally confound its readers in an attempt to appear legitimate.
–Gay Peoples Chronicle
The great virtue of this book is Fishers attempt to present Kushner not as a gay playwright but as one of the prominent political dramatists in the US today.
–CHOICE
A valuable book for anyone interested in American drama...offering crisp explications and fact-filled stage histories of Kushners varied canon. ... My vote is for James Fisher to write the continuing history of Kushners prolific and prophetic theater. No one is more qualified.
–World Literature Today
About the Author
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 in America Part One: Millennium Approaches.
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A very good comprehensive portrait of Tony Kushner,
By Ishbel Szatrawski (Cracow, Poland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Theater of Tony Kushner (Studies in Modern Drama) (Paperback)
Actually I would rate this item a bit higher. Perhaps 4.5 stars? It's very well done, full of important information, detailed, and, the most important aspect, intelligent. I am also very happy because that's what I really wanted and needed, that's the thing that I expected when I ordered it. And I'm definitely not disappointed. A real comprehensive portrait indeed. Proper for scholars, drama and theater lovers, well, everybody, who's interested in Tony Kushner's works.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Difficult but ultimately empty,
This review is from: The Theater of Tony Kushner (Studies in Modern Drama) (Paperback)
I really struggled with this author's writing style - extremely long sentences made reading comprehension an end in itself rather than a means to communicate. Worse, in place of providing commentary or insight, the bulk of the essays just describes the action of the play. Some little commentary is laid out in the introduction and largely repeated in the following chapters. Not what I was looking for.
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Kushner severely tests his faith in hope in A Bright Room Called Day, a dark, despairing work illuminating issues of political engagement (past and present), survival, and fear in an era of great social evil-in this case, the rise of Adolf Hitler. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gay dramatist, undoing world, epic farce, gay fantasia, millennium approaches, theater classic, longstanding problems, national themes, play for lovers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Bright Room, Dutch Mother, Shen Te, Tony Kushner, United States, Madame Sommer, Die Alte, Roy Cohn, Henry Box Brown, San Francisco, Sister Antonia, Dame Dorothy, Home Body, James Fisher, Young Nun, Ethel Rosenberg, Housing Detective, Sir Thomas Browne, Soviet Union, East Coast Ode, Solemn Grandchild, Brothers Grimm, Alley Theatre, David Schine New!
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Kushner severely tests his faith in hope in A Bright Room Called Day, a dark, despairing work illuminating issues of political engagement (past and present), survival, and fear in an era of great social evil-in this case, the rise of Adolf Hitler. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gay dramatist, undoing world, epic farce, gay fantasia, millennium approaches, theater classic, longstanding problems, national themes, play for lovers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Bright Room, Dutch Mother, Shen Te, Tony Kushner, United States, Madame Sommer, Die Alte, Roy Cohn, Henry Box Brown, San Francisco, Sister Antonia, Dame Dorothy, Home Body, James Fisher, Young Nun, Ethel Rosenberg, Housing Detective, Sir Thomas Browne, Soviet Union, East Coast Ode, Solemn Grandchild, Brothers Grimm, Alley Theatre, David Schine New!
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- Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika by Tony Kushner on 37 pages
- Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue: Essays, A Play, Two Poems and a Prayer by Tony Kushner on 11 pages
- A Bright Room Called Day by Tony Kushner on 11 pages
- Tony Kushner in Conversation (Triangulations) by Tony Kushner on 4 pages
- The Skin of Our Teeth: A Play (Perennial Classics) by Thornton Wilder on page 55, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- 'You Should See Yourself': Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Culture by Vincent Brook in Back Matter
- The Playwright's Muse (Studies in Modern Drama) by Joan Herrington in Front Matter
- Peering Behind the Curtain: Disability, Illness, and the Extraordinary Body in Contemporary Theatre by Thomas Fahy in Front Matter
- The Playwright's Muse (Studies in Modern Drama) by Joan Herrington in Front Matter
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