Tony Kushner, a playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize and two Tony Awards for his two-part stage work "Angels in America" and critical acclaim for his prescient "Homebody/Kabul," which explores geopolitics in Afghanistan, will appear at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University for an upcoming address.
Terryl Hallquist, associate professor of theatre at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ, will conduct "A Conversation with Tony Kushner" on Wednesday, Nov. 12, at 6 p.m. in Benton Chapel at the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Divinity School. A reception with Kushner will precede the lecture at 5 p.m. in the Divinity School Faculty Reading Room. Both events are free and open to the public and sponsored by ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ’s Chancellor’s Lecture Series.
Kushner’s 1993 play "Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes" is set in 1986 and explores how AIDS, at the height of the epidemic, affects the intertwining lives of a handful of people. Kushner has adapted "Angels in America" into a screenplay for HBO Films. The pay-television channel will air the six-hour film version, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Al Pacino, Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson, in December.
WHAT: "A Conversation with Tony Kushner"
WHERE: Benton Chapel at the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Divinity School 411 21st Ave. S.
WHEN: Wednesday, Nov. 12. Reception at 5 p.m. Conversation at 6 p.m.
Media contact: Kara Furlong, (615) 322-NEWS Kara.c.furlong@²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ.edu