Tony Kushner Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Gus Marcantonio, a retired longshoreman, summons his adult children home to the family's Brooklyn brownstone to discuss his recent decision to commit suicide. With his trademark mix of soaring intellect, searing emotion, and biting wit, legendary playwright Tony Kushner unfurls an epic tale of revolution, radicalism, family, love, sex, politics, real estate, unions and debts both unpaid and unpayable. With sweeping themes as hefty as its title, "IHo" (as it has been nicknamed) explores the dense and vexing issues that stem from the betrayal of a failed ideology and the challenges of family connectedness. This cerebral mammoth of a play asks what is left when the long-held belief systems that construct and inform one's identity prove to be empty.

This is the first study to place Jewish refugee movementsfrom Nazism into a wider framework of global forced migration from the latenineteenth through to the twenty first century.

Le ragioni del successo di Tennessee Williams che, iniziato nel 1944-1945 proprio con The Glass Menagerie,ha toccato l'apice nel primo decennio del dopoguerra, possono essere trovate nel confondersi degli elementi con i quali lo scrittore compone i suoi drammi, che appaiono così una sorta di riflesso, esasperato e lucidamente torbido, delle inquietudini e del disagio morale di molta parte della coscienza moderna. I personaggi che Williams ci presenta, come le storie che ci narra, nascono sempre dalla fusione di un realismo violento, spesso brutale e provocatorio, con struggimenti patetici, quasi romantici e non di rado morbosi, da una specie di fermentazione dolorosa ed esaltante della memoria entro un presente crudele, che delude i sogni e che travolge il sognatore incapace di mantenere i contatti con la realtà.

An illustrated retelling of the Czech opera in which a brother and sister find a way to outwit the bullying, bellowing, hurdy-gurdy grinder named Brundibar who will not let them earn money by singing in the town square

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Angels in America" presents a major collection of short plays written over the past few yeas.

The premier American playwright of this decade speaks out about art, sexuality, and social justice

As a young gay man leading a closeted life in the 1960s American South, Toland Polk tries his best to keep a low profile. He’s aware of the racial injustice all around him—the segregationist politicians, the corrupt cops, the violent Klan members—but he feels powerless to make a difference. That all changes when he crosses paths with an impassioned coed named Ginger Raines.Ginger introduces him to a lively and diverse group of civil rights activists, folk singers, and night club performers—men and women who live authentically despite the conformist values of their hometown. Emboldened by this new community, Toland joins the local protests and even finds the courage to venture into a gay bar.No longer content to stay on the sidelines, Toland joins his friends as they fight against bigotry. But in Clayfield, Alabama, that can be dangerous—even deadly.

Dramatizes the effects of AIDS on the United States through the experiences of lawyer Roy Cohn, a Mormon couple, and a young man called Prior Walter