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Tony Kushner

Theater Review: A Three-Hour “Bright Room Called Day” Befuddles at the Public Theater

Tony Kushner attempts a re-write of his first professional play. The results are decidedly mixed.

By: Christopher Caggiano Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: A Bright Room Called Day (Revisited), Christopher Caggiano, Tony Kushner

Theater Review: “Caroline, or Change” — In Purgatory, All Souls Are Tested

This evening is a revelatory experience on race relations, with grief, rage, and the whole business of hope and change.

By: Greg Harris Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Caroline or Change, Greg Harris, Jeanine Tesori, Moonbox Productions, Tony Kushner

Theater Review: Flat Earth Theatre’s “A Bright Room Called Day”: Illuminating These Dark Times

This staging, in terms of quality, surpasses any previous Flat Earth Theatre production I have attended.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: A Bright Room Called Day, Dori A. Robinson, Flat Earth Theatre, Tony Kushner

Theater Review: “Homebody” – A Nation in a Reading Nook

Debra Wise’s stellar turn is not only a reflection of her long stage career, but a testament to the breadth of her experience.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Debra Wise, Homebody, Lee Mikeska Gardner, Tony Kushner, Underground Railway Theater

Theater Commentary: Is a Five-Year-Old Tony Kushner Play Too Challenging For Boston?

The only Boston-based companies that have the means to stage an epic on this scale will shy away from the content while those adventurous enough to handle its iconoclasm lack the means.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With A Key to the Scriptures, Theater J, Tony Kushner

Theater Review: “Brundibár” and “But The Giraffe!” Serious Theater for Young People

The Underground Railway Theater production shows that sometimes children’s theater is capable of a moral depth (perhaps even a fearlessness) that adult theater often avoids.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Adolf Hoffmeister, Brundibár, But The Giraffe!, Hans Krása, Tony Kushner, Underground Railway Theater

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