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...have turned the Romeo and Juliet tragedy in my own life into a theatrical piece commissioned by the RSC. After the show, I am often asked if I regret playing Juliet. No, I say. Shakespeare was worth the sacrifice - rather him than the love of a father. The playwright knows and serves me better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shakespeare: A Life on Stage | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

Fighting the lure of sunshine and 70-plus degree temperatures outside, an audience of nearly 200 filled Lowell Lecture Hall yesterday afternoon for prominent playwright Tony Kushner’s lecture, “Fiction That’s True! Historical Fiction and Anxiety...

Author: By Madeleine A. Bennett, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kushner Draws Crowd To Historical Fiction Talk | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

...wanted a Jewish playwright who really knows his stuff, you should have gotten David Mamet,” he joked, referring to his anxiety about lecturing in front the Harvard audience...

Author: By Madeleine A. Bennett, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kushner Draws Crowd To Historical Fiction Talk | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

Bernanke joins a list of Class Day speakers that includes such notables as Mother Teresa, playwright Arthur Miller, former Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis, and Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bernanke To Give Class Day Speech | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...central inspirations, Kushner said. “He’s saying this is the way the world is, that there is such a thing as injustice, and these qualities are offered up without any veiling or disguise,” he said. Kushner criticized the playwright Tom Stoppard for the implicit message of his popular play sequence, “The Coast of Utopia,” and his recent play “Rock ‘n’ Roll.” In Stoppard’s plays, he said, there...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kushner Speaks "Fiction That's True" | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

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