Tony Kushner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer best known for his two-part epic, 'Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes'. He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols’ film of 'Angels In America', and Steven Spielberg’s 'Munich'. His 2012 screenplay for Spielberg’s movie 'Lincoln' was nominated for an Academy Award, and won the New York Film Critics Circle Award, Boston Society of Film Critics Award, Chicago Film Critics Award, and several others.

In Toronto for one night only, Kushner will talk about how he “tackles the most difficult subjects in contemporary history” (The New Yorker), his life as an artist weaving the most challenging politics of the day so seamlessly throughout his writing, and his thoughts on the future of contemporary theatre in North America.

Born in New York City in 1956, Tony Kushner is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an Emmy Award, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, an Arts Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a PEN/Laura Pels Award, a Spirit of Justice Award from the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, a Cultural Achievement Award from The National Foundation for Jewish Culture, a Chicago Tribune Literary Prize for lifetime achievement, and the 2012 National Medal of Arts, among many others.

Monday, May 9, 2016 | 8 PM (Doors 7 PM)

Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge Street

Tickets on sale NOW | $29–$69

Purchase Online: http://www.mirvish.com/shows/tonykushner

By Phone 1.800.461.3333

Presented by the Koffler Centre of the Arts. Photo: Joan Marcus.