An Evening with Tony Kushner March 23, 2012

An evening of theater and conversation exploring the psychological themes in the work of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Angels in America."

Tony Kushner's short play "Terminating" will be presented in a staged reading, following by a discussion with the author and noted bay area clinicians: Sam Gerson, Ph.D., Leslye Russell, MFT, and Joan Sarnat, Ph.D. The evening will conclude with Tony Kushner in conversation with Mark Bronnenberg.

A benefit for The Psychotherapy Institute
a non-profit organization celebrating its 40th Anniversary

Tickets: $35, $55, $65

"One of the most linguistically luxuriant dramatists of our time...Mr. Kushner makes words sing, swoon and somersault as no other living American playwright does."
Ben Brantley, NY Times, June 5, 2011

Tony Kushner's plays include A Bright Room Called Day; Angels in America, Parts One and Two; Slavs!; Homebody/Kabul; Caroline, or Change, a musical with composer Jeanine Tesori; and The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide To Capitalism And Socialism With A Key To The Scriptures. He has adapted and translated Pierre Corneille's The Illusion, S.Y. Ansky's The Dybbuk, Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Sezuan and Mother Courage and Her Children; and the English-language libretto for the opera Brundibar by Hans Krasa. He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols' film of Angels In America, and Steven Spielberg's Munich. His books include Brundibar, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak; The Art of Maurice Sendak, 1980 to the Present; and Wrestling With Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict, co-edited with Alisa Solomon. Kushner is the recipient of a Pultizer Prize, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, two Evening Standard Awards, an Olivier Award, an Emmy Award and an Oscar nomination, among other honors. In 2008, he was the first recipient of the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award. He lives in Manhattan with his husband, Mark Harris.

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