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...Kushner??s visit was the latest installment of the Learning From Performers series, co-sponsored by the Office for the Arts at Harvard, the American Repertory Theatre (ART), and the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club. The event is designed to be informal; the goal of the series is to facilitate a conversation, not hold a lecture...
...playwright spoke for just over an hour, answering questions first from the event’s host, Gideon Lester of the ART, and then from the audience. The questions ranged from politics (one of Kushner??s latest theatrical inventions is a conversation with Laura Bush) to books (Kant, Benjamin and Dostoyevsky are indispensable to him) to playwriting...
...Kushner??s distinction between theater and journalism is that while journalism necessarily always drives at a particular point, or expounds a certain idea, a good play refuses to set things down in so many words. A good play, he says, is not a set of arguments...
...real Tony Kushner is not the static figure of an hour’s public conversation; he is himself changing, constantly acting and being acted upon. The living, breathing Tony Kushner??a self-described “gay American Jewish Socialist”—wouldn’t fit into a magazine article...
Although it has not yet been formally announced, she says she will also dramatize The Namesake: A Novel, by Jhumpa Lahiri. She also plans to do Tony Kushner??s Homebody/Kabul for HBO, and Hari Kunzru’s The Impressionist...