Further Reading
- Berstein, Andrea, "Tony Kushner," Mother Jones 20, no. 4 (July/August 1995): 59, 64. (Presents an interview with Kushner.)
- Brask, Per, ed., Essays on Kushner's Angels, Winnipeg: Blizzard Publications, 1995. (Contains two essays on Angels in America translated from Danish and German.)
- Fisher, James, Review of The Good Person of Szechuan, by Bertolt Brecht, adapted by Tony Kushner, Theatre Journal 52, no. 1 (March 2000): 120-01. (A review asserting that Kushner's adaptation, while emphasizing the play's relevance to contemporary American society, is largely faithful to the original work by Bertolt Brecht.)
- Geis, Deborah R., and Steven F. Kruger, eds., Approaching the Millennium: Essays on Angels in America, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. (A collection of essays by various authors on Angels in America, addressing such topics as sexual, racial, and ethnic identity, national politics, and religion.)
- Hornby, Richard, "Dramatizing AIDS," The Hudson Review XLVI, No. 1 (Spring 1993): 189-94. (Review of Angels in America that praises Kushner for avoiding sentimentality in the depiction of AIDS.)
- Korn, Eric, "Slavs Are Us," Times Literary Supplement, no. 4788 (6 January 1995): 18. (A review of Slavs! that assesses the play as beautifully written and compelling, though poorly constructed and uneven in quality.)
- Kuharski, Allen J., Review of Hydriotaphia, or, The Death of Dr. Browne, by Tony Kushner, Theatre Journal 50, no. 3 (October 1998): 371-72. (A review describing the play as a provocative and chilling work that, despite elements of comedy, is ultimately a “deeply disturbing meditation on death.”)
- Kushner, Tony, and Kim Myers, "Not on Broadway," in Tony Kushner in Conversation, edited by Robert Vorlicky, pp. 231-44, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. (Presents an interview originally conducted on November 11, 1995 in which Kushner discusses his literary influences, the political nature of his plays, his work in theatrical production, and the role of theater in contemporary society.)
- Oppenheim, Irene, "Shedding More Light on Bright Room," American Theatre 17, no. 7 (September 2000): 75-7. (A review of A Bright Room Called Day assessing the role of Zillah, the narrator of the play.)
- Shewy, Don, "Tony Kushner's Sexy Ethics," The Village Voice XXXVIII, No. 116 (20 April 1993): 29-32, 36. (Discusses the commotion surrounding the Broadway production of Angels in America and includes an interview with Kushner.)
- Steyn, Mark, "Communism Is Dead; Long Live the King!" The New Criterion 13, No. 6 (February 1995): 49-53. (Negative assessment of Angels in America that finds the play overblown and Kushner a "preposterously well-meaning moralizing sentimentalist.")
- Weber, Bruce, "Angels' Angels," The New York Times Magazine CXLII, No. 49,312 (25 April 1993): 27-31, 48-58. (Surveys the various productions of Angels in America as it made its way to Broadway.)
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