Tony Kushner: The 20th Anniversary of “Angels in America” November 6, 2010

SPEAKER: Tony Kushner; Playwright, “Angels in America”

TITLE: Tony Kushner: The 20th Anniversary of “Angels in America”

DATE: Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010

TIME: 11 a.m. Box opens, Noon Program

PLACE: Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Ave.,San Francisco

PRICE: $15 Club/MPD Members, $25 Non-members, $7 Students. Premium seating $45 Members, $65 Non-members. Must register through City Box Office at cityboxoffice.com or (415) 392-4400. Members use code angels2010.

ALSO KNOW: Co-organized by the Museum of Performance and Design. In association with The Commonwealth Club’s Arts and LGBT Member-Led Forums.

American playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner is celebrating the 20th anniversary of his groundbreaking play Angels in America with the opening of a new exhibition called “More Life! Angels in America at 20” at the Museum of Performance & Design. Exhibition curator Brad Rosenstein will talk with Kushner about the play’s dramatic evolution, powerful ongoing legacy, and anticipated New York revival.

In the early 1990s, Kushner’s seven-hour Broadway blockbuster “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes” about the AIDS epidemic in Reagan-era New York was an epic hit. It earned a Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, two Drama Desk Awards, the New York Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, among several other honors.

Kushner co-wrote the screenplay for the 2005 film “Munich” which was produced and directed by Steven Spielberg. His other plays include “Hydriotaphia”; “Slavs!: Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness”; “Homebody/Kabul”; and “Caroline, or Change.”

In the 1980s, Kushner founded a theater group and began writing and producing plays. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University.