Guide to the

Tony Kushner Collection

1990-1996

Collection No. 90

2.54 Linear ft.

Prepared by Trina Morgan

April 2012

CITATION: The Tony Kushner Collection, Collection No. 90, Box No., Folder No., Archives

and Special Collections Department, Frazar Memorial Library, McNeese State University.

Archives and Special Collections Department

Frazar Memorial Library

McNeese State University

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Biographical Sketch

Tony Kushner is a playwright born in Manhattan, New York and raised in Lake Charles,

Louisiana, where he graduated from Lake Charles High School in 1974. He received his

undergraduate degree from Columbia, and then took a master’s in theater at New York

University. His plays include “A Bright Room Called Day” and “Angels in America,” for which

he received the Pulitzer prize.

Scope and Content

The collection is comprised primarily of newspaper and magazine articles about Kushner and his

plays. Also included are playbills and a poster.

Contents

Box Description

1 Performing Arts, October 1992. Article page 11.

Time, November 23, 1992. Article pages 72-6.

Newsweek, November 23, 1992. Article pages 126-30.

The New Yorker, November 30, 1992. Article on pages 59-64.

New York, April 12, 1993. Article pages 42-8.

Theater Week, May 10, 1993. Article pages 20-23.

Rolling Stone, May 13, 1993. Article page 73.

The New Yorker, May 31, 1993. Article pages 137-141.

Vanity Fair, December 1993. Article pages 162-63.

The New Yorker, December 13, 1993. Article pages 129-33.

Time, January 3, 1994. Article page 86.

Out Smart, April 15, 1995. Article pages 40-50.

Newsweek, June 27, 1994. Article pages 46-8.

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Contents, cont.

Box Description

2 Vogue, November 1992. Article pages 158-65.

Lake Charles American Press, Nov. 8, 1992 (8).

Poster - Angels in America, by Tony Kushner, Nov. 1992.

Lake Charles Symphony Program, 1995-1996 Season

Playbill - Perestroika, Angels In America, Walter Kerr Theatre, May

1994.

Program - Encore! Houston, Texas, Angels In America, Part 1:

Millennium Approaches, Alley Theatre, Spring, 1995.

Architectural Digest, Nov. 1995 (28,32).

Boneau Bryan-Brown, The Washington Post, May 5, 1993 (F1-F2).

Boneau Bryan-Brown, The Boston Globe, May 5, 1993 (73-74).

Houston Chronicle, Apr. 12, 1995 (1D, 6D).

Variety, July 15, 1995 (E1,E2).

The New York Times, The Living Arts, Dec. 4, 1992 (B2).

Commentary, Jan. 1995 (51-58) by Edward Norden.

Tikkun, Vol. 10, No. 3, (27-30).

The New York Times, The Arts, Mar. 5, 1992 (C15).

Los Angeles Times /Calendar, May 13, 1990 (45-46,48).

The New Republic, May 24, 1993 (29-31).

Collection of opening night reviews of Angels in America, published by

Serino Coyne Inc. May 5, 1993.

Review in The Washington Post of production of Angels in America.

(AP) Review of Slavs, review by Michael Kuchwara.

Review of Angels in America, Houston Chronicle, Apr. 12, 1995.

Interview with Tony Kushner about Angels in America, by Paula Span,

Washington Post.

Playbill from A Bright Room Called Day, a play written and directed by

Tony Kushner. Performed at Theater 22 on Apr. 18-21, 25-27, 28.

Marching Out of the Closet Into History, in The New York Times, 11-

10-92 (B1).

Video, KPLC interviews 1993 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Tony Kushner and

Robert Olen Butler, Jr. (6-16-93) and Video, Great Performances: In the

Wings: Angels in America on Broadway, PBS, June 11, 1993

Other clippings.