Tony Kushner

Maurice Sendak: Call of the wild

The truth behind the children's classic 'Where the Wild Things Are' – now a $100m movie – is that growing up can be painful. Having already sold 10 million copies worldwide, they have this year inspired a 300-page novelisation...

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TONIGHT: Authors Doyle, Magruder

Authors James Magruder and Larry Doyle will continue UB's Fall M.F.A. Reading Series on Nov. 18 with a night of readings and conversation entitled "It Happened in High School." They will discuss the journeys of their humorous...

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Gavin Creel, Neil Patrick Harris, Adam Lambert, Cyndi Lauper, et al. Named...

Out magazine has revealed the names of the celebrities who are part of the 2009 Out 100 List. This year's honorees include singers Adam Lambert and Cyndi Lauper, actors Gavin Creel, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, John Glover, Neil...

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Around the Nation (The Nation)

The Nation - The Nation -- The opportunity to sit down and talk with the remarkable American writers (and Nation Editorial Board members) Toni Morrison, Tony Kushner, and Walter Mosley is rare enough one on one.

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Roger Rees' brings his life to the stage

Web Search powered by YAHOO! search When actor Roger Rees performs his one-man show "What You Will" at Washington University on Friday, audiences can look forward to a trove of backstage anecdotes, selections from a man who...

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Mini theater reviews: 'Angels in America'

Friday, November 13, 2009 MINI REVIEWS A star (*) denotes a show recommended by our critics. Newly Reviewed *ANGELS IN AMERICA: PERESTROIKA By Forum Theatre at Round House Theatre/Silver Spring through Nov. 22 When we last saw...

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Guthrie hopes to land play cycle on Afghanistan

If details can be worked out, the theater would host a sprawling and ambitious cycle of one-acts from Britain that tell myriad stories from the war-torn country. As the Guthrie Theater shapes its 2010-11 season, it is planning...

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Bogosian and Kushner sexify the Bard at the Cabaret

Published Friday, November 13, 2009 Rarely do Shakespearean sonnets remind us that the Bard too must have screwed, shat and pissed. Pulitzer winner Tony Kushner and writer/actor Eric Bogosian (Pulitzer nominee but obviously...

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Karen Finley, Richard Kind, Brenda Wehle, et al. Set for Women's...

An updated line-up of performers has been announced for Cooper Union's Women's Suffrage and Women's Rights, to be held as part of the "Great Evenings in The Great Hall" series, on Thursday, November 19, at 6:30pm. Lauren...

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D.C. community calendar, Nov. 12-18, 2009

SHORT WAR FILMS, "Our America at War" (1941), John Huston's "The Battle of San Pietro" (1944), "UN Offensive" (1950) and others. Noon, National Archives, Constitution Avenue and Seventh Street NW. Free. 202-357-5000.

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