Playwright Tony Kushner to Talk WEST SIDE STORY Remake at Bard College

It has been reported that lauded playwright Tony Kushner will appear in conversation with theatre scholar Alisa Solomon at Bard College to chat about the legacy and influence of legendary composer Leonard Bernstein

The event, which will take place on April 20 at 7:30 PM, will feature Kushner going in depth about his history with Bernstein's works and his creative role in the upcoming film remake of West Side Story.

Tickets to the event are $25 and can be purchased here. The talk will take place at the Fisher Center, located on the Bard campus.

Tony Kushner's plays include A Bright Room Called Day; Angels In America, Parts One and Two; Slavs!; Homebody/Kabul and Caroline, or Change. His adaptations include Corneille's The Illusion, S.Y. Ansky's The Dybbuk, and Brecht's The Good Person of Sezuan and Mother Courage and Her Children (Public Theater).

Kushner's films include Angels In America, directed by Mike Nichols and Munich, directed by Steven Spielberg.

His books include Brundibar, illustrations by Maurice Sendak; The Art of Maurice Sendak, 1980 to the Present; and Wrestling With Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict (co-edited with Alisa Solomon).

Kushner has received the Pulitzer Prize, an Emmy Award, an Oscar nomination, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, an Olivier Award, two Evening Standard Awards, and is the first recipient of the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award.