Tony Kushner
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• World premiere at Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis in 2009. New York premiere at The Public Theater in 2010 (co-produced with Signature Theatre). West coast premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theater in 2014.
• Has been notoriously and extensively revised between each of the above productions.
• Title is a reference from the work of George Bernard Shaw ("The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism") and to Mary Baker Eddy ("Key...
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It was here that Lenin justified his personal interpretation of Marxism, savaged his opponents and set out his trenchant views on class conflict, the lessons of earlier revolutions, the dismantling of the bourgeois state and the replacement of capitalism by the, dictatorship of the proletariat.
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In Homebody/Kabul, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America, has turned his penetrating gaze to the arena of global politics to create this suspenseful portrait of a dangerous collision between cultures. Written before 9/11, Homebody/Kabul premiered in New York in December 2001 and has had highly successful productions in London, Providence, Seattle, Chicago and Los Angeles. This version incorporates all the playwright's...
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Tony Kushner: "This is an odd assemblage of plays, for which gathering-together there is no overarching thematic justification. Because several of the plays deal with death, and one of the death-plays deals as well with money, and the last play deals with taxation, we're calling the book Death & Taxes. But all plays, directly or indirectly, are about death and taxes, so this title explains little..." What is clear, is that all of the plays in this...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family. Laura, lame and painfully shy, evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to the make-believe world of her glass animal collection. Tom eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura.
10) Brundibar
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2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Aninku and Pepicek find their mother sick one morning, and they need to buy her milk to make her better. The brother and sister go to town to make money by singing. But a hurdy-gurdy grinder, Brundibar, chases them away. They are helped by three talking animals and three hundred schoolchildren to defeat the bully. Brundibar is based on a Czech opera for children that was performed fifty-five times by the children of Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp...
11) The Fabelmans
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[2023]
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Young Sammy Fabelman falls in love with movies after his parents take him to see The Greatest Show on Earth. Armed with a camera, Sammy starts to make his films at home, much to the delight of his supportive mother.
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Angels in America volume pt. 1
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1993
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Presents the text of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning stage drama which follows the thread of AIDS through the lives of several gay men.
13) Perestroika
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Angels in America volume pt. 2
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c1996
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A continuation of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama "Millennium Approaches," picking up the story after one of the characters, dying of AIDS, has been declared a prophet.
18) Munich
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[2005]
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It's the 1972 Olympics and PLO terrorists have just kidnapped and murdered 11 Israeli athletes. After the tragic incident is over and several of the terrorists have gone free, the Israeli government of Golda Meir recruits Avner to lead a team of undercover agents to hunt down those responsible throughout Europe, and eliminate them one-by-one. It is physically and emotionally messy work, and conflicts between Avner and his team's handler, Ephraim,...
19) Lincoln
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2013.
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A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th president's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country, and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
20) The Fabelmans
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[2023]
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Young Sammy Fabelman falls in love with movies after his parents take him to see The Greatest Show on Earth. Armed with a camera, Sammy starts to make his films at home, much to the delight of his supportive mother.