Tony Kushner News

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Jeanine Tesori and Bess Wohl have joined The Dramatists Guild Council, the leadership team of the Guild.

Emily Blunt, who was recently nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in Oppenheimer, may be appearing in the next film from prolific director Steven Spielberg. If cast, Blunt is said to be playing one of two leads. This will be the first time she works with the director.

There is no greater musical theatre staging preservationist than Baayork Lee, who has devoted much of her career to preserving and restaging the original direction and choreography to A Chorus Line.

While theater often manages to entertain or to move its audience, Angles in America is a great example of how quality theater can also educate....upon hearing Kushner’s masterful dialogue and viewing Checchia’s excellently vulgar and vile performance (of Roy Cohn), I was incentivized to learn everything that I could about this man and the damage that he has done.

Westport Country Playhouse will present “In Conversation with Tony Kushner'. See how to purchase tickets.

 Drama Desk Award winner and SAG Award nominee Michael Urie will star alongside Tony Award winner Sutton Foster in Once Upon A Mattress on Broadway this summer! Tickets are on sale now!

The Center at West Park will present a reading of John Leguizamo's new play Our Hood, an innovative adaptation of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, on May 30th and 31st as part of their American Playwrights Series.

Universal and Amblin Entertainment have announced the release date for the next film from the prolific director Steven Spielberg. Said to be an 'event film,' Spielberg's movie will released theatrically on May 15, 2026. The film will be based on a story from Spielberg, with a screenplay written by David Koepp, who has penned several Spielberg films in the past.

The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has been announced as the recipient of the 2024 Regional Theatre Tony Award. The honor recognizes a regional theatre company that has displayed a continuous level of artistic achievement contributing to the growth of theatre nationally.

Portland Stage Company and Dramatic Repertory Company have released photos of the cast of their upcoming production of ANGELS IN AMERICA PT 1: Millennium Approaches.

Celebrate Pride Month with Ephrata Performing Art Center's LGBTQ+ programming, featuring two full play productions, staged readings, and educational talkbacks. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Portland Stage joins forces with the Dramatic Repertory Company to revive Tony Kushner’s multiple award-winning 1991 drama, ANGELS IN AMERICA, in a production that Artistic Director Anita Stewart proudly calls “all Maine-made.”  The company has shouldered the huge task of presenting the sprawling seven-hour epic in two parts, the first of which “Millennium Approaches” proves its ability to create a powerful emotional impact long after its premiere.

Composer/trumpeter Frank London presents SPIRIT STRONGER THAN BLOOD, a career retrospective concert at Brooklyn's Roulette on June 3, 2024 at 8pm.

Stage and screen star Nathan Lane will receive the Harold S. Prince Award for Lifetime Achievement and Lincoln Center Theater’s André Bishop will receive the inaugural William Wolf Award at the 68 Annual Drama Desk Awards. Learn more about the awards.

The Center for Fiction, a 200-year-old literary nonprofit that has created an immersive home for readers and writers in downtown Brooklyn, and Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre, will co-present Story/Teller Arts: Quiara Alegría Hudes on My Broken Language: A Theater Jawn.

Cole Escola stopped by Late Night With Seth Meyers in full Mary Todd Lincoln garb to discuss their hit play, Oh, Mary, which was recently announced to be transferring to Broadway. Escola wrote the play and also stars as the central character of Mary Todd Lincoln. The plot centers on the First Lady during the weeks leading up to Lincoln's assassination. Watch the interview!

Join the Center for Fiction and Theatre Communications Group for Story/Teller Arts: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins with Jocelyn Bioh.

Nu Sass Productions has announced a year of celebrations for its fifteenth season, featuring the DC premiere of a new play, a new look at their first production, a revival of one of their most popular shows, and exciting new partnerships that deepen the company's ties to the DMV arts community.

All new rehearsal photos have been released from the return of the original, smash hit production of People, Places and Things.