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Lithgow will be the first professional artist to speak at Afternoon Exercises in 27 years, the most recent being Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1978. No one with a background in professional theater has given the address since playwright Thornton Wilder spoke at the 1951 Commencement...
...there is something undeniably appealing about hearing a playwright speak for himself. What, you wonder, will he even sound like? The two-part Angels in America, which arrived on Broadway in 1993, is explosive theater; it belongs in the category of plays Kushner calls “huge sloppy messes...
...problem Kushner has with plays driven by single ideas—a kind of expository theater—is that they don’t get us anywhere. The playwright first hits upon some important idea, then “turns it into a club and beats you over the head with...
...truly affect the way people think and make sense of their lives, the playwright needs to find a new starting point, and it may not be one he himself is comfortable with. “You want to start at the point of confusion,” says Kushner, “and go forward...
...Even the playwright must keep in mind that the theater is living and has a potential all its own to grow. “You don’t want to start out trying to teach people something you already know,” Kushner says to an aspiring playwright in the audience who asks him for advice, “They know what you know; now where can you go together with them...