Tony Kushner

It’s a history “based on the necessity of opening up and looking beyond, instead of suffocating in, the small space of the self — not only to avoid being pigeonholed but also to exercise the muscle of sympathy.”

So many of America’s great plays and musicals have been created and performed by Jews. T’s Holiday issue explores why — and gathers dozens of Jewish actors, writers and directors.

Tony Kushner and Anthony Fauci were among the speakers who fondly described difficult moments with the irascible writer and activist.

Six opinionated writers debate — and define — the state of L.G.B.T.Q. writing in order to make a list of the most essential works of fiction, poetry and drama right now.

The veteran actor has been singled out for his rousing performance in Steven Spielberg’s drama. It’s the latest chapter in a long career full of anecdotes.

No actor working today has evoked the tragedy and pathos of the leading lady — and brought those qualities to her art — as deeply as Williams. Now she’s figuring out how to fuel that same creativity from a very different place.

In our 2022 Culture issue, out April 24, T followed a group of artists — musicians, chefs, designers, writers and others — throughout the course of a day, exploring the intimate moments of their lives that contribute, in ways small and large, to their creative process.

The playwright discusses the recent wave of anti-L.G.B.T.Q. policies and how far the country has — or hasn’t — come since the AIDS epidemic.

The pandemic shutdown gave the actor time to reconnect with his clarinet, helping him fully realize his character, a lost-in-grief musician.

Readers react to a guest essay that was critical of the remake of the movie. Also: Newark’s homeless; helping grieving children

Musicals often take time to build an audience, but can this remake, with little star power, compete with franchises and spectacles?

Selections from the current Weekend section, including a review of “West Side Story.”

Steven Spielberg rediscovers the breathing, troubling essence of a classic, building a bold and current screen musical with no pretense to perfection.

After premiering this week, the remake has vaulted into contention, with nominations possible for the film, director Steven Spielberg, Rita Moreno and others.

With the Steven Spielberg film coming soon, three critics, a playwright and a theater historian weigh in on whether the musical deserves a new hearing — and how.

When Steven Spielberg asked Kushner, America’s most important living playwright, to take on ‘West Side Story,’ he thought, ‘He’s lost his mind.’ But he dared.

The playwright recites a joke about gefilte fish.

Two very different visionary artists, Hayao Miyazaki and Tony Kushner, are both famed for creating fantastic, fully realized worlds that also reflect our own.

An electrifying revival of the 2003 musical, featuring a titanic performance by Sharon D Clarke, follows the money to the source of American inequality.

The Olivier Award winner stars in “Caroline, or Change” in a role that pays tribute to “all Black women trying to make their way through this life.”

A starry selection of scenes from Tony Kushner’s 1993 classic discovers premonitions of another pandemic in the AIDS-era play.

Plus: A marquee cast tackles a Kenneth Lonergan play, and Glenn Close, Beanie Feldstein, Audra McDonald and Melissa Errico go digital.

Laura Linney, Patti LuPone and Jeremy O. Harris will also feature in the digital performance of scenes from Tony Kushner’s two-part epic on Oct. 8.

In her new HBO documentary, “Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn,” the director Ivy Meeropol pushes past the easy labels in search of the human being.

What we plan to listen to in perpetuity (or right now) in our Spotify-enabled isolation.

Our writers offer suggestions for what to watch, read or listen to while we’re housebound.

This murky and tedious reworking of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s dark fable of love and lucre is illuminated by Lesley Manville’s dazzling star turn.

And elsewhere in Paris, smaller theaters take more radical cues from the L.G.B.T.Q. world.

In retooling his first produced work, Tony Kushner himself appears as a character in this lumbering portrait of endangered artists in Nazi Berlin.

The return of Tony Kushner’s “A Bright Room Called Day” prompted us to ask leading writers: How did it go for you? And what did you learn?

The Roundabout Theater Company productions each explore race in America.

Along with a revival of Ntozake Shange’s “choreopoem” and a new David Henry Hwang musical: work from Tony Kushner, Richard Nelson and Steve Earle.

West End productions of “Company” and “Caroline, or Change” have the heart and fire that sometimes felt missing in earlier incarnations.

Using intricate choreography and cues, the Angel Shadows — dancers and puppeteers — propel the Angel into the air and operate her heavy wings.

The two actors, who have never met, share insights on understanding the character of Prior Walter and how to maintain the stamina to play him.

‘Dancer From the Dance,’ ‘Angels in America’ — and the decade that brought queer literature to the fore.

Marianne Elliott’s London-born production of Tony Kushner’s masterwork is blazingly reimagined with a cast including Nathan Lane and Andrew Garfield.

With “Angels in America” about to reopen on Broadway, the 61-year-old playwright is feeling serene — at least by his own intense standards. Don’t get him started on the president, though.

A grand return for Tony Kushner’s “Angels,” a raw reworking of “Yerma” and a South African docudrama about bringing down a statue — all this and Glenda Jackson, too!

In “The World Only Spins Forward,” Isaac Butler and Dan Kois tell the story of Tony Kushner’s epic play in the words of the artists who made it and the fans who love it.

Four actors are currently being sought for the remake of the movie.

Andrew Garfield and Denise Gough will join Mr. Lane in the pair of acclaimed plays by Tony Kushner on Broadway next year.

“Not everybody loves them as much as I do,” Mr. Kushner says of the ceramic angels hanging in the house he shares with his husband, Mark Harris.

Tony Kushner’s “Caroline, or Change,” from 2004, used the toppling to shed light on a key character’s frustrations. The subplot resonates powerfully today.

Mr. Kushner said in an interview with The Daily Beast that he was working on a play set two years before the 2016 election.

Shorn of the exuberant verbosity of Tony Kushner’s play, Peter Eotvos’s 2004 adaptation was given its New York premiere on Saturday by City Opera.

The playwright describes his reaction to Peter Eotvos’s 2004 opera, which will have its New York premiere on Saturday at the Rose Theater at Lincoln Center.

The Hungarian composer Peter Eotvos’s adaptation of Tony Kushner’s epic play had an acclaimed Paris premiere in 2004 and now it makes its New York debut.

A 25th-anniversary revival at the National Theater in London confirms its place in the pantheon of great American dramas.

As Tony Kushner’s masterwork reopens at the National Theater, creators of the first British production recall the intensity of working in a small space.

Get recommendations from New York Times reporters and editors, highlighting great stories from around the web. Today, great reads from Matt Apuzzo, Prashant Rao and others.

Among those scheduled to appear are Jake Gyllenhaal, Greta Gerwig, Alec Baldwin and Tony Kushner.

Sally Field, Michael C. Hall, David Hyde Pierce and others will stage a reading of “Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde” in October.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, Michael Moore, Tony Kushner and Walter Mosley will be among the speakers on Oct. 24 as The Nation concludes its 150th-anniversary celebration.

The play points up the parallels between two dramatists who buck the status quo.

Ivo van Hove’s adaptation of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America” lends a striking universality to its portrait of life and imminent death in the early years of the AIDS epidemic in New York.

Tony Kushner’s landmark AIDS drama “has difficult subject matter,” says Sean Harris, its director at Playhouse on Park, in West Hartford. “But it’s an important story.”

Among the notables on the program at the Next Wave Festival: Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Vijay Iyer and the Berliner Ensemble.

The National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal were each awarded to 12 recipients in a White House ceremony.

George Lucas, Herb Alpert, Allen Toussaint, Renée Fleming and Tony Kushner are among this year’s recipients of the National Medal of Arts. National Humanities Medals will go to Marilynne Robinson, Kay Ryan, Anna Deavere Smith and Joan Didion, among others.

With Tony Kushner's "Angels in America," the National Theater and the Hungarian government are at odds.

Why are Hollywood’s makers of historical films such slaves to fiction?

The screenwriters of three politically tinged Oscar-nominated films discuss their work.

The “Lincoln” screenwriter is among those on a letter sent to the Senate protesting pressure brought by three Senators in regard to “Zero Dark Thirty.”

“Lincoln” leads the Oscars with a dozen nominations — spread among many veteran award-winning filmmakers — but it was a bear to make, even for professionals at the top of their field.

The producer of “Lincoln” says the film began 15 years ago with a chance meeting between Steven Spielberg and the historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.

Norah Jones will perform at the Oscars, and other awards-related news.

Elizabeth Keckley, the former slave who became dressmaker and confidante to Mary Lincoln, is having a busy season in pop culture, portrayed onstage, on screen and on the page.

Christoph Waltz, Rachel Weisz, Sally Field, Kathryn Bigelow and others share thoughts on a moment in the Academy Awards spotlight.

The indie “Beasts of the Southern Wild” and the big-budget “Lincoln” have more in common than initially meets the eye.

The new $100,000 award was established in September by Jean Kennedy Smith to honor her brother Edward M. Kennedy.

Albany has a brief mention in the new film “Lincoln,” alluding to the back-room arm-twisting and undignified goings-on in the capital then, which may seem familiar today.

The nature of solitary confinement, from the maddening effects of isolation from those who have been there to creative ways to spend the time, was the subject of a program at N.Y.U.

“Lincoln,” starring Daniel Day-Lewis, is more a political thriller than a biopic, a civics lesson that is energetically staged and alive with moral energy, placing slavery at the center of the story.

Daniel Day-Lewis, known as a picky film actor with obsessive work habits, talks (a bit) about his process in preparing for the title role in Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln.”

The annual PEN World Voices literary festival, to be held this year from April 30 through May 6, will include Herta Muller, Martin Amis, Ludmila Ulitskaya, festival chairman Salman Rushdie and a contingent from the Middle East, as well as E.L. Doctorow, Jennifer Egan, Paul Auster and Claire Messud.

Did gay liberation spring from postwar novels and plays?

The playwright is honored for his “lifetime of artistic work and activism.”

A new one-act opera, “A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck,” directed by Francesca Zambello, has its premiere at the Glimmerglass Festival.

This production of “The Illusion,” adapted by Tony Kushner from a work by the 17th-century French playwright Pierre Corneille, trafficks in a special, baroque brand of magic.