Tony Kushner Reveals Future Stage Plans, Including a Broadway Return
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Tony Kushner, best known for penning the Tony Award-winning drama Angels in America, has not seen one of his works on the Great White Way in over a decade — the last being his 2004 collaboration on the Tony-nominated musical Caroline, or Change with composer Jeanine Tesori. However, according to a recent interview with OUT magazine, the celebrated playwright may soon end his Broadway hiatus.
During the interview, Kushner mentioned a few upcoming projects that will certainly pique the interest of his most loyal fans. "I’m working on an adaptation of a big, sort of famous German-language play, but I can’t say which one," he said, adding, "And it may be for a big star, but I can’t say whom. It’s for Broadway, and I recently finished the first draft."
In 2009, Kushner tried his hand at Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, so perhaps another Brecht translation is in our future. Then again, Georg Büchner's Woyzeck is always looking for playwrights to add their own finishing touches.
In addition to this Broadway-bound dramatic project, Kushner went on to say, "…and I’m developing a new musical with Jeanine Tesori about the death of Eugene O’Neill." The project will reunite the Caroline, or Change collaborators — a piece Kushner cites as "the most pleasurable creative experience of my entire life."
Here's to hoping their next partnership meets the high bar set by the first.
