POV Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner | PBS

Tony Kushner, whose epochal Angels in America won a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, has emerged as one of the country's leading playwrights — and one of its fiercest moral critics. In the film "Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner," airing on PBS's P.O.V. series on December 12, 2007, Oscar-winning director Freida Lee Mock (P.O.V.'s "Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision") followed Kushner for three tumultuous years, from September 11, 2001 to the 2004 presidential election, to delve into the passions that keep him reaching for the great American play. Actresses Marcia Gay Harden, Meryl Streep, Tonya Pinkins and Emma Thompson, directors Mike Nichols and George C. Wolfe, and writer/artist Maurice Sendak are seen collaborating with Kushner on such landmark works as Angels in America; Caroline, or Change and Homebody/Kabul. Find out more at http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2007/tonykushner

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[StephanieSmith92]

Yo Mez! Shouting! Loved it!

[sharonmeansrose]

I just watched this the other night on PBS. It's a fascinating portrait.

[Alvin4NY]

I highly reccomend this DVD-very well done, a most deserving tribute. Tony is my Hero!