Taking A Look At Tony Kushner

“Kushner is a world-class mensch. He’s also one of the most ambitious contemporary playwrights around. But great theater isn’t synonymous with great causes, and none of his other plays has come close to eliciting the resounding critical acclaim of ‘Angels.’ What’s more, there are obvious costs to his public availability, exploited by journalists in need of a sound bite as much as by dogged documentary filmmakers. Simply put, if you’re constantly holding forth on what you do as a writer, how can you protect the imaginative insularity needed to do it?”