Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner

1956-07-16 New York City, New York, USA 30 Credits

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Anthony Robert Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter. Lauded for his work on stage he's most known for his seminal work Angels in America which earned a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award. At the turn of the 21st Century he became known for his numerous film collaborations with Steven Spielberg. He received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013. Kushner made his Broadway debut in 1993 with both Angels in America: Millennium Approa...

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מלאכים באמריקה- המילניום מתקרב

מלאכים באמריקה- המילניום מתקרב

2023

Author

מלאכים באמריקה- בנייה מחדש

מלאכים באמריקה- בנייה מחדש

2023

Author

Angels in America - Part One: Millennium Approaches

Angels in America - Part One: Millennium Approaches

2023

Author

America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, six New Yorkers with interconnect lives grapple wi...

Angels in America - Part Two: Perestroika

Angels in America - Part Two: Perestroika

2023

Author

In the second part, Perestroika, Prior, Joe, Louis, Harper, and Roy continue to navigate love, loss, and loneliness in their attempts to pick up the p...

The Fabelmans: A Family in Film

The Fabelmans: A Family in Film

2023

as Self

7.2
Acting

A fascinating behind-the-scenes special about Steven Spielberg's "The Fabelmans."

The Fabelmans

The Fabelmans

2022

Producer, Writer

7.6
Producing Writing

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shatte...

The Stories of West Side Story

The Stories of West Side Story

2022

as Self

7.8
Acting

Rejoice in the astonishing all-new footage of Spielberg at work in documentary filmmaker Laurent Bouzereau’s revealing The Stories of West Side Story....

West Side Story

West Side Story

2021

Screenplay, Executive Producer

7.0
Writing Producing

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

Something's Coming: West Side Story

Something's Coming: West Side Story

2021

as Self

7.5
Acting

Incredible video behind-the-scenes with the stars, Steven Spielberg, and see one of the last interviews with the legendary Stephen Sondheim.

Angels in America

Angels in America

2021

Writer

7.8
Writing

New York, 1985. Against the backdrop of AIDS - divine punishment inflicted on gays according to puritan America -, angels, who epilogue on the emptine...

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

2020

Writer

10.0
Writing

An all-star livestream benefit performance of scenes from Angels in America in support of amfAR’s Fund to Fight COVID-19.

Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn

Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn

2019

as Self

6.4
Acting

Legendary and controversial attorney Roy Cohn was a power broker in the rough and tumble world of New York City business and politics. Senator Joseph ...

Arthur Miller: Writer

Arthur Miller: Writer

2017

as Self

7.1
Acting

One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, which contin...

Spielberg

Spielberg

2017

as Self

7.6
Acting

A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.

National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part Two: Perestroika

National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part Two: Perestroika

2017

Theatre Play

8.6

America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and ...

National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part One: Millennium Approaches

National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part One: Millennium Approaches

2017

Theatre Play

8.6

The National Theatre's live theatrical production of Tony Kushner's two-part play 'Angels In America' about New Yorkers grappling with the AIDS crisis...

Mike Nichols: An American Master

Mike Nichols: An American Master

2016

as Self

6.3
Acting

With charm and wit, Nichols discusses his life and 50-year career as a performer and director.

The Royal Road

The Royal Road

2015

as (archive sound)

5.4
Acting

A fascinating and unlikely reinvention story, The Royal Road simultaneously explores cinematic spiritual channeling, the conquest and colonization of ...

Still Alice

Still Alice

2014

Thanks

7.5

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastat...

Lincoln: An American Journey

Lincoln: An American Journey

2013

as Self

5.5
Acting

Documentary on the making of Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" (2012).

Lincoln

Lincoln

2012

Screenplay

6.9
Writing

The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln p...

Outrage

Outrage

2009

as Self

6.3
Acting

An indictment of closeted politicians who lobby for anti-gay legislation in the US.

Theater of War

Theater of War

2008

as Self

6.2
Acting

A behind-the-scenes look at The Public Theater's production of Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage" that examines the playwright's life and ideas.

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

2006

as Self

Acting

Eugene O'Neill tells the haunting story of the life and work of America's greatest and only Nobel Prize-winning playwright -- set within the context o...

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

2006

as Self

2.0
Acting

Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock explores the life and work of playwright Tony Kushner. Starting in 2001, when Kushner was mounting the production of his pla...

Munich

Munich

2005

Screenplay

7.1
Writing

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black Septem...

Live to Tell: The First Gay and Lesbian Prom in America

Live to Tell: The First Gay and Lesbian Prom in America

1995

as Self - Playwright, "Angels in America"

1.0
Acting

Documentary about the first gay prom in America, that took place in West Hollywood, promoted by students of the EAGLES center, an alternative high sch...

In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway

In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway

1993

Acting

Backstage documentary chronicling the Original Broadway Production of “Angels in America.”

The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara

N/A

Writer

Writing

The story of a young Jewish boy in Bologna, Italy in 1858 who, having been secretly baptized, is forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Chri...

Ultra

N/A

Executive Producer

Producing

Feature adaptation of ‘Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra’ podcast.