MPR broadcasts Monday's Global Voice: Tony Kushner

Posted on Jun 12, 2009 at 1:01 p.m. by LeeH
Playwright Tony Kushner discussed the creative process June 9 with the Guthrie Theater's Joe Dowling. Kushner's latest play, The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, premiered last month at the Guthrie.
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Queer Voices reading on Sunday, June 14

Posted on Jun 11, 2009 at 10:50 a.m. by LeeH
The Guthrie will host a free reading in the McGuire Proscenium on Sunday, June 14 at 7 p.m. titled Queer Voices: A Special GLBT Pride Reading.
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3-Minute Egg profiles Live Action Set

Posted on Jun 09, 2009 at 10:31 a.m. by LeeH
In the second of their three-part series on Live Action Set's creative process for this show, 3-Minute Egg takes you to a rehearsal in the Ivy Building.
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KARE 11 Extra: Meet Caroline's shining star

Posted on Jun 05, 2009 at 10:03 a.m. by LeeH

KARE 11's Jana Shortal profiles Caroline, or Change star Greta Oglesby. So many of us dream big. After all, dreams are what propel us forward. Oglesby knew that as a little girl growing up in Chicago. Her dream was crystal clear.

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"Intelligent" flashes brilliance at the Guthrie

Posted on Jun 01, 2009 at 10:52 a.m. by LeeH
The new play commissioned of Tony Kushner by the Guthrie Theater, The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism & Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, is the clear successor to Kushner's masterpiece, Angels in America, picking up many of the same arguments about love, sexuality, and politics while adding many more--and brilliantly.
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Tony Kushner Has His Day

Posted on May 29, 2009 at 11:51 a.m. by LeeH
Newsweek reporter Jeremy McCarter profiles the playwright at the heart of America's cultural moment.
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Kushner's new play: Did theatergoers like it?

Posted on May 28, 2009 at 1:32 p.m. by LeeH
Theater patrons talked about Tony Kushner's new play "The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures."
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Tony Kushner talks up Minneapolis

Posted on May 28, 2009 at 1:26 p.m. by LeeH
Tony Kushner talked about Minneapolis and his play "The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures" after Friday night's opening.
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Tiny is "a sampling worth savoring"

Posted on May 21, 2009 at 3:18 p.m. by LeeH
"Oh, the things that are racing around in Tony Kushner's head: Eccentric musicians and deposed Albanian royalty. Nixon's shrink and thousand-eyed therapeutic machines. White supremacists and corrections officers. And, of course, Rudy Giuliani, Bill Clinton and Laura Bush."
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"Tiny Kushner" packs a big punch

Posted on May 21, 2009 at 10:34 a.m. by LeeH
TCDailyPlanet reviews Tiny Kushner, saying: "Size matters not-whether you're a Jedi master or a theatrical presentation. Such is demonstrated by Tiny Kushner, the collection of short plays by Tony Kushner now playing at the Guthrie's smallest venue, the Dowling Studio."
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