SXSW 2025 Heads to The Studio With Seth Rogen

New films from Ben Affleck, Nicole Kidman, Nic Cage added to fest

"...their lives. Cast: Mo Stark, Ben Jacobson, Liza Colby, Tony Drazan, Lina Rong Mei Chen, Genevieve Hudson-Price, Liz Caribel..."

Jan. 22, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: Penfold Theatre’s Box

Audacious retelling of an equally audacious life

"...In the early 1990s, Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning playwright Tony Kushner also took a stab at..."

June 28, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Austin Film Critics Association Announces 2022 Awards Short Lists

Everything Everywhere All At Once leads nominee pack

"...Inisherin • Jordan Peele, Nope • Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, The Fabelmans Best Adapted Screenplay..."

Jan. 4, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Fabelmans

Steven Spielberg presents his own origin story

"...Fabelmans, Spielberg harnessed several of his frequent collaborators: co-scriptwriter Tony Kushner, cinematographer Janusz Kamiński, editors Sarah Broshar and Michael..."

Nov. 25, 2022 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Review: Zach Theatre's The Inheritance, Part 1

Epic in length and ambition, this portrait of gay life in the 21st century is stunning

"...Jonathan Larson’s Rent, Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, and Larry Kramer’s The Normal..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, February 25 - March 3

"...theory and more of a love affair." Finally, playwright Tony Kushner: "I'm not religious, but I like God, and..."

Feb. 25, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

We Have an Issue: In the Artist’s Thrall

In this week's issue, Darla Teagarden's otherworldly tableaux

"...Screen: Culture Editor Richard Whittaker speaks with Pulitzer winner Tony Kushner about adapting West Side Story...."

Feb. 4, 2022 Column by Kimberley Jones

From Stage to Page to Screen: Inside the Script of West Side Story

Tony Kushner explains the process of adapting a classic

"...Adaptations call to Tony Kusnher. Even though he made his reputation through his..."

Jan. 31, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Steve Davis’s Top 10 Films of 2021

"...Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Lost Daughter), Rebecca Hall (Passing), Tony Kushner (West Side Story) TV Series/Event..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Screens Feature by Steve Davis

West Side Story

Bernstein. Shakespeare. Sondheim. Spielberg. ’Nuff said!

"...as Anita in the original film. The script by Tony Kushner, a frequent Spielberg collaborator (Munich, Lincoln), sharpens the..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Last Bow of an Accidental Critic

Lessons and surprises from a career that shouldn't have been

"...What, I get to interview Meryl Streep? Laurie Anderson? Tony Bennett? Robert Goulet?***** The number of personal heroes I've..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The 12 Signs of the Chinese Zodiac

Rollo Banks' Lunar New Year Chronicle covers

"...Best Case: Tony's big-hearted actions inspire world peace. Cue the purrs...."

Feb. 12, 2021 Arts Feature by S. Emerson Moffat

The Personal Stories Behind Ben Is Back

Writer/director Peter Hedges on family, alcoholism, and going home

"...untenable epidemic ... Larry Kramer writes The Normal Heart, Tony Kushner writes Angels in America, and William Hoffman wrote..."

Dec. 14, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Full Arthur Miller Archive Lands at UT

Ransom Center acquires complete papers by The Crucible author

"...the full archive of this "profoundly American writer," as Tony Kushner called him, will reside at the University of..."

Jan. 12, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

aGLIFF Announces Lineup

Austin's favorite LGBTQ fest drops next month

"...Cut Snake / Australia (Dir. Tony Ayres) - Austin Premiere..."

July 28, 2015 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Marjorie Baumgarten's Top 10 list

Marjorie Baumgarten's Top 10s

"...Andy Wachowski, and Lana Wachowski), Argo (Chris Terrio), Lincoln (Tony Kushner) WORST FILM..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Letters at 3AM: The Lincolns of Hollywood

It is dangerous to view history through the eyes of sentimentality

"...Lincoln? Daniel Day-Lewis's statue-come-to-life performance deserves all praise, but Tony Kushner's script gives us a Lincoln who never loses..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

The AggreGAYtor: November 16

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...Matthew Mitcham goes down memory lane, Tony Kushner gets historical, and Ryan Murphy takes on a..."

Nov. 16, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Lincoln

Despite a monumental performance by Daniel Day-Lewis, Spielberg's film has a fussed-over theatricality that's hard to escape.

"...Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Tony Kushner, the acclaimed playwright (Angels in America) and Spielberg’s..."

Nov. 16, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Caroline, or Change

Zach Theatre's fine staging should be required viewing at this historic moment

"...by Dave Steakley, is immaculate and does justice to Tony Kushner's words and Jeanine Tesori's music at every turn...."

Oct. 17, 2008 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

TV Eye

Wrestling With Angels is an intimate, surprisingly extensive profile of one of this nation's greatest contemporary playwrights

"...The good news is that Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner will, indeed, air on PBS. The bad news..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Entranced

Remembering one who fascinated us all: Karen Kuykendall, 1937-2007

"...When Angels playwright Tony Kushner came and did an event for Zach prior..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Master Builder

The impeccable craft and enduring genius of Arthur Miller, as explained by Tony Kushner

"...Tony Kushner offered up these words at a memorial service..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Miller in Austin

"...In conjunction with the exhibition, Tony Kushner will speak with playwright Steven Dietz about Arthur..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Arts Feature

Culture Flash!

Kushner talks Arthur Miller, Zach's cool School Musical is back, and AIPP teaches you how to make permanent public art

"..."Rehearsing the American Dream: Arthur Miller's Theater," Pulitzer Prize-winner Tony Kushner and fellow playwright and UT theatre professor Steven..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

Documentarian Freida Mock presents her subject as a play in three acts, but the academic and fragmented structure obscures the warmth of this playwright.

"...subject as a play in three acts. There is Tony Kushner, the politically outspoken playwright, whose Homebody/Kabul blasted political..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Friday

"...Ritz Heavy-rock bongloaders might recognize the name of Utrillo Kushner as the drummer for Sub Pop's Comets on Fire...."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Hang the DJ

The new political theatre invites you into its messy, sexy conversation

"...York Times interview last year, Angels in America playwright Tony Kushner called this "the experience we have all had,..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Munich

Munich is dense, thoughtful filmmaking that nonetheless flies along: Seething not only with multilayered, subtextual arguments, it’s also a heck of a thriller.

"...to current events, of course, and Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner (Angels in America) take tremendous pains to humanize..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

House Arrest

Both Anna Deavere Smith's script for 'House Arrest' and Zachary Scott Theatre Center's production of it fall short as meaningful political theatre

"...expense of lasting, truly political conclusions. From the two-part, Tony Kushner clock-buster Angels in America to Anna Deavere Smith's..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

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