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Wig Out! (mccwigo)

Enter the legendary House of Light, a hyper-glamorous, uber-competitive drag queen refuge where a daughter who was once a son, can find a family. While the House are primping and preening for a catwalk showdown with the other houses, drag queen Nina is wooing the delectable Eric as Wilson, a de-camped, make-up free ‘straight’ gay man. How can Nina/Wilson strut the thorny divide between opposite genders and differing worlds? With sassy music, killer costumes and performed in a club cabaret setting, Wig Out! brings to glorious, vivid life, a riotous, defiant drag queen sub-culture.

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Premiere Year
2008
Premiere Theater
Vineyard Theatre
Premiere City
New York
Premiere Creative

Cast: Daniel T. Booth, Joshua Cruz, Glenn Davis, Sean Patrick Doyle, McKenzie Frye, Nathan Lee Graham, Angela Grovey, Andre Holland, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Erik King, and Clifton Oliver Director: Tina Landau

Major Production Year
2008
Major Production Theater
Royal Court
Major Production City
London
Major Production Creative

Cast: Katie Gillespie, Leon Lopez, Danny Sapani, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Kevin Harvey, Alex Lanipekun, Holly Quin-Ankrah, Craig Stein, and Jessika Williams Director: Dominic Cooke

Major Production 2 Year
2018
Major Production 2 Theater
Company One Theatre
Major Production 2 City
Boston
Major Production 2 Creative

Director: Summer L. Williams

Major Production 2 Date
April 27, 2018
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The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures (kushomos)

The title of Tony Kushner's play is inspired by two 19th-century thinkers and their works—George Bernard Shaw's The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism and Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. The play looks at the life of a 20th-century thinker, retired longshoreman Gus Marcantonio, who's feeling confused and defeated by the 21st century. In summer 2007, he invites his sister and his three children (who in turn bring along spouses, ex-spouses, lovers and more) to a most unusual family reunion in their Brooklyn brownstone. With humor and passion, the play examines the importance of connectedness and belonging—to a family, a community, a group, an ideology, a marriage—and what happens when those connections are lost.

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Premiere Year
2009
Premiere Theater
Guthrie
Premiere City
Minneapolis
Premiere Creative

Cast: Mark Benninghofen, Kathleen Chalfant, Sun Mee Chomet, Michael Cristofer, Linda Emond, Michael Esper, Charity Jones, Ron Menzel, Michelle O'Neill, Michael Potts, and Stephen Spinella

Director: Michael Greif

Major Production Year
2011
Major Production Theater
Public Theater / Signature Theatre
Major Production City
New York
Major Production Creative

Cast: Bill Camp, Michael Cristofer, Linda Emond, Michael Esper, K. Todd Freeman, Hettienne Park, Stephen Pasquale, Molly Price, Danielle Skraastad, Stephen Spinella, and Brenda Wehle Director: Michael Greif

Major Production 2 Year
2014
Major Production 2 Theater
Berkeley Rep
Major Production 2 City
Berkeley
Major Production 2 Creative

Cast: Tina Chilip, Randy Danson, Anthony Fusco, Jordan Geiger, Tyrone Mitchell Henderson, Lou Liberatore, Deirdre Lovejoy, Mark Margolis, Joseph J. Parks, Robynn Rodriguez, and Liz Wisan Director: Tony Taccone

Major Production 2 Date
16-May-14
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Tiny Kushner (kustinyk)

An evening-length presentation of Tony Kushner's shorter works, first presented together at the Guthrie. Includes the plays Flip Flop Fly!, Terminating or Sonnet LXXV or "Lass Meine Schmerzen Nicht Verloren Sein" or Ambivalence, East Coast Ode to Howard Jarvis, Dr. Arnold A. Hutschnecker in Paradise, and Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy.

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Premiere Year
2009
Premiere Theater
Guthrie
Premiere City
Minneapolis
Premiere Creative

Cast: J.C. Culter, Kate Eifrig, Jim Lichtscheidl, and Valeri Mudek

Director: Tony Taccone

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Homebody/Kabul (kushome)

In the late 90s, a bored, emotionally imprisoned but wildly intellectual English woman called the Homebody, flees to Afghanistan, a place that she romanticizes with the help of a tourist guidebook. Her mysterious disappearance prompts a search by her husband and daughter who arrive in the foreign land unprepared for the adventures and contradictions that await them. 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.

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Premiere Year
2001
Premiere Theater
New York Theatre Workshop
Premiere City
New York
Premiere Creative

Cast: Dylan Baker, Firdous E. Bamji, Yusef Bulos, Bill Camp, Jay Charan, Linda Emond, Kelly Hutchinson, Joseph Kamal, Dariush Kashani, Sean T. Krishnan, and Rita Wolf

Director: Declan Donnellan

Major Production Year
2002
Major Production Theater
Young Vic / Cheek by Jowl
Major Production City
London
Major Production Creative

Cast: Mark Bazeley, Antony Bunsee, Silas Carson, William Chubb, Jacqueline Defferary, Souad Faress, Kevork Malikyan, Kika Markham, and Nadim Sawalha Director: Declan Donnellan

Major Production 2 Year
2003
Major Production 2 Theater
Steppenwolf
Major Production 2 City
Chicago
Major Production 2 Creative

Cast: Firdous Bamji, Jeremy Beiler, Reed Birney, Ali Farahnakian, Diana M. Konopka, Raymond Kurut, Elizabeth Ledo, Tracy Letts, Aasif Mandvi, Omar Metwally, Arian Moayed, Amy Morton, Diana Simonzadeh, and Chris Yonan Director: Frank Galati

Major Production 2 Date
10-Jul-03
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Hydriotaphia or The Death of Doctor Browne (kushydri)

Kushner's wild intellectual comedy chronicles the last hours in the life of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682), an English physician and writer known for the richness of his prose and his attempt to reconcile Christian values with scientific knowledge. As the great man wanes, he must deal with not just his wife and amanuensis, but also his Soul and Death, not to mention a love-struck gravedigger, a stuttering preacher, and a trio of ranters, among the cast of 15. Each character has an all-important agenda and is single-minded in the pursuit of it in a "fabulous" world that spans heaven and earth, the metaphysical and the mundane, the bawdy and the beatific.

The play has been collected in an edition alongside a number of short works, on which Kushner has written: "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 . . . "

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Premiere Year
1998
Premiere Theater
Alley Theatre / Berkeley Rep
Premiere City
Houston / Berkeley
Premiere Creative

Cast (Berkeley): Wilma Bonet, Louise Chegwidden, Charles Dean, Moya Furlow, Rod Gnapp, Jonathan Hadary, Paul Hope, J.R. Horne, Hamish Linklater, Sharon Lockwood, Delia MacDougall, Anika Noni Rose, Sloane Shelton, Shelley Williams

Director: Michael Wilson (Alley) and Ethan McSweeney (Berkeley)

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A Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds (kusdybbu)

Considered by many to be the greatest Yiddish drama, A Dybbuk recounts the tale of a wealthy man'’s daughter possessed by the spirit of her dead beloved. This volume features Tony Kushner'’s remarkable, imaginative adaptation of S. Ansky's original play, along with an afterword by Harold Bloom. Also included is a selection of stories, fairy tales and parables translated into English for the first time by Joachim Neugroschel, illuminating many aspects of the Jewish mystical world, including possessions, transmigration parables and miracles.

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Premiere Year
1995
Premiere Theater
Hartford Stage
Premiere City
Hartford
Premiere Creative

Cast: Julie Dretzin, Michael Hayden, and Robert LuPone

Director: Mark Lamos

Major Production Year
1997
Major Production Theater
Public Theater
Major Production City
New York
Major Production Creative

Cast: Umit Celebi, Joyce Chittick, Joan Copeland, Robert Dorfman, Nina Goldman, Marin Hinkle, Stephen Kunken, Ron Leibman, David Lipman, Christopher McCann, Hillel Meltzer, Eve Michelson, Josh Mostel, Lola Pashalinski, Bernie Passeltiner, Ed Shea, Lorin Sklamberg, Michael Stuhlbarg, Daniel Wright, and Stuart Zagnit Director: Brian Kulick

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Slavs! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness (kusslavs)

Leaving the familiar world of New York, Kushner transports us to Russia circa 1985 at the beginning of Perestroika, and takes us through the fall of the Soviet empire in 1991. Along the way, we encounter leaping Bolsheviks, drunken lesbians, wandering children, and even a Babushka or two. Both brilliantly funny and timelessly sad, Tony Kushner's thoughtful play isn't afraid to ask the eternal questions, while laughing at the presumption of such a task.

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Premiere Year
1994
Premiere Theater
Actor's Theatre of Louisville (Humana)
Premiere City
Louisville, KY
Premiere Creative

Cast: Steven Culp, Barbara Eda-Young, Ray Fry, Kate Goehring, Gerald Hiken, Michael Kevin, Fred Major, and Mary Shultz

Director: Lisa Peterson

Major Production Year
1994
Major Production Theater
New York Theatre Workshop
Major Production City
New York
Major Production Creative

Cast: Mischa Barton, David Chandler, Barbara Eda-Young, Ben Hammer, Gerald Hiken, John Christopher Jones, Mary Shultz, Marisa Tomei, and Joseph Wiseman Director: Lisa Peterson

Major Production 2 Year
1995
Major Production 2 Theater
Hampstead Theatre
Major Production 2 City
London
Major Production 2 Creative

Cast: Annette Badland, Peter Baylis, Ron Cook, Peter Copley, Paul Jesson, Lucy Kent, Carly Maker, Richard Mayes, Aisling O Sullivan, and Imelda Staunton Director: Matthew Lloyd

Major Production 2 Date
1995
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The Illusion (kusillus)

A lawyer, facing mortality, desperate to find the son he drove away years before, travels in the dead of night to a mysterious cave. There he engages the services of a wizard, who conjures up visions of the romantic, adventurous, perilous life the lawyer'’s son has been living since his father expelled him from home. The Illusion, freely adapted from Pierre Corneille'’s L'’Illusion Comique, is Kushner’s most joyfully theatrical play, a wildly entertaining tale of passion and regret, of love, disillusionment, and magic.

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Premiere Year
1988
Premiere Theater
New York Theatre Workshop
Premiere City
New York
Premiere Creative

Cast: Michael Galardi, Arthur Hanket, Neil Maffin, Victor Raider-Wexler, Socorro Santiago, Stephen Spinella, Regina Taylor, and Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Director: Brian Kulick

Major Production Year
1994
Major Production Theater
Classic Stage Company
Major Production City
New York
Major Production Creative

Cast: Rob Campbell, Lynn Hawley, Steve Mellor, Dan Moran, Cynthia Nixon, Rocco Sisto, John C. Vennema, and Todd Weeks Director: David Esbjornson

Major Production 2 Year
2011
Major Production 2 Theater
Signature Theatre
Major Production 2 City
New York
Major Production 2 Creative

Cast: Peter Bartlett, Sean Dugan, David Margulies, Amanda Quaid, Lois Smith, Henry Stram, Merritt Wever, and Finn Wittrock Director: Michael Mayer

Major Production 2 Date
5-Jun-11
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A Bright Room Called Day (kusbrigh)

Berlin. 1932. A group of artists and communists throw a decadent party to celebrate the coming new year. But as the country succumbs to the seduction of Nazism they are forced to choose between integrity and survival. Shocking and provocative, the play caused a sensation when it was first performed. From Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Tony Kushner, A Bright Room Called Day examines the darkest reaches of the human heart.

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Premiere Year
1987
Premiere Theater
Eureka Theatre
Premiere City
San Francisco
Premiere Creative

Cast: Abigail Van Alyn, Carmalita Fuentes, Lorri Holt, Ann Houle, Jeff King, Michael McShane, Jaime Sempre, David Warshofsky, and Sigrid Wurschmidt

Director: Oscar Eustis

Major Production Year
1990
Major Production Theater
Public Theater
Major Production City
New York
Major Production Creative

Cast: Frances Conroy, Olek Krupa, Joan MacIntosh, Kenneth L. Marks, Ellen McLaughlin, Angie Phillips, Frank Raiter, Reno, Marian Seldes, and Henry Stram Director: Michael Greif

Major Production 2 Year
2014
Major Production 2 Theater
Southwark Playhouse
Major Production 2 City
London
Major Production 2 Creative

Cast: Elizabeth Andrewartha, Charlie Archer, Jonathan Leinmuller, Laura Hanna, Ethan Holmes, Charlotte Jacobs, Holly Morgan, and Alana Ramsey Director: Sebastian Harcombe

Major Production 2 Date
23-Jul-14
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Guards at the Taj (josguard)

In 1648 India, two Imperial Guards watch from their post as the sun rises for the first time on the newly-completed Taj Mahal—an event that shakes their respective worlds. When they are ordered to perform an unthinkable task, the aftermath forces them to question the concept of friendship, beauty and duty, and changes them forever.

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Premiere Year
2015
Premiere Theater
Atlantic Theater
Premiere City
New York
Premiere Creative

Cast: Omar Metwally and Arian Moayed; Director: Amy Morton

Major Production Year
2015
Major Production Theater
Geffen Playhouse
Major Production City
Los Angeles
Major Production Creative

Cast: Raffi Barsoumian and Ramiz Monsef; Director: Giovanna Sardelli

Major Production 2 Year
2016
Major Production 2 Theater
Woolly Mammoth
Major Production 2 City
Washington, DC
Major Production 2 Creative

Cast: Kenneth De Abrew and Ethan Hova; Director: John Vreeke

Major Production 2 Date
February 1, 2016
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