'Angels in America' playwright Kushner at MU

KBIA | By Associated Press

Published April 22, 2013 at 9:06 AM CDT

Tony Award-winning playwright Tony Kushner comes to the University of Missouri this week as part of a conference on gays and lesbians in the theater.

Kushner's play "Angels in America" chronicles the early AIDS crisis in New York City and won both a Tony and Pulitzer Prize in 1993.

Theater professor David Crespy will interview Kushner at 5 p.m. Wednesday at the university's Rhynsberger Theatre.

The first part of Kushner's two-part play will be performed on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at the campus theater. A free reading of the play is scheduled for Sunday afternoon.

Ticket information and additional details on the academic conference can be found online at http://theatre.missouri.edu/angels

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