Story/Teller

Story/Teller Arts: Tony Kushner on The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures

Thursday, 7:00 pm EDT October 19, 2023

The Center for Fiction
& Livestreamed

The Center for Fiction is thrilled to welcome legendary playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America) to celebrate the first print publication of The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures (or iHo). In this play—which opened at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis in 2009 and had its Off-Broadway premiere at The Public Theater in 2011—Gus Marcantonio, a retired longshoreman, summons his adult children home to the family’s Brooklyn brownstone to discuss his recent decision to commit suicide. Kushner will discuss his epic tale of revolution, radicalism, family, love, sex, politics, real estate, unions, and debts both unpaid and unpayable, full of soaring intellect, searing emotion, and biting wit.

The Center for Fiction is thrilled to continue its collaboration with Theatre Communications Group for this event, with past events featuring Jackie Sibblies Drury and Claudia Rankine; Annie Baker and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins; Heidi Schreck and Paula Vogel; Sarah Ruhl and Matthew Aucoin; Aleshea Harris and Nissy Aya; Lynn Nottage and Damon Tabor; Martyna Majok, Naveen Kumar, and David Zayas; Taylor Mac and Laura Collins-Hughes; Will Arbery, Chloé Cooper Jones, and Leslie Jamson; and James Ijames.

Each ticket (in-person and livestream) will come with a signed copy of iHo.

Featuring

Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner’s plays include A Bright Room Called Day; Angels in America, Parts One and Two; Slavs!; Homebody/Kabul; the musical Caroline, or Change; and the opera A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck, both with composer Jeanine Tesori. He has adapted Pierre Corneille’s The Illusion, S. Y. Ansky’s The Dybbuk, Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person of Szechuan and Mother Courage and Her Children, and the English language libretto for the opera Brundibár by Hans Krasa. He wrote the screenplay for Mike Nichols’s film of Angels in America, and the screenplays for Steven Spielberg’s Munich, Lincoln, West Side Story, and The Fabelmans, the last of which was co-written with Mr. Spielberg. Mr. Kushner’s books include Brundibar, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak; The Art of Maurice Sendak, 1980 to the Present; and Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict, co-edited with Alisa Solomon. Among other honors, Mr. Kushner was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama. He lives in Manhattan with his husband, Mark Harris.

Photo Credit: Angela Brown

Featured Book

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The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures (iHo)

By Tony Kushner

Published by Theatre Communications Group

PURCHASE

Gus Marcantonio, a retired longshoreman, summons his adult children home to the family’s Brooklyn brownstone to discuss his recent decision to commit suicide. With his trademark mix of soaring intellect, searing emotion, and biting wit, Kushner unfurls an epic tale of revolution, radicalism, family, love, sex, politics, real estate, unions and debts both unpaid and unpayable.

Front Cover Credit: Mark Melnick

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Story/Teller

Our Story/Teller series features actors reading from new works of fiction to give audiences a taste of the language, characters, and story, followed by moderated conversations with the authors.

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