"Angels in America" author

Playwright Tony Kushner will speak at Brown Nov. 18 at 6:30 p.m.

Playwright Tony Kushner will present a lecture at Brown University Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 6:30 p.m. The lecture, "The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures," is part of the President's Lecture Series and is presented in association with the University's Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance, and Trinity Repertory Theatre.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Tony Kushner, one of this century's great playwrights, will speak at Brown University on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 6:30 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching on The College Green. His lecture, "The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures," is part of the President's Lecture Series and is presented in association with the University's Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance, and Trinity Repertory Theatre.

The lecture, which will be held in room 101, is free and open to the public.

Kushner's seven-hour, two-part Broadway production, "Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes," received a Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, two Drama Desk Awards, the Evening Standard Award, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award and the LAMBDA Literary Award for Drama.

A gay Jewish socialist raised in Louisiana and educated at Columbia and New York University, Kushner has said he intends his plays to be part of a greater political movement, concerned with issues of moral responsibility during politically repressive times. His works feature both historical and fictional characters who collide with themselves, and with recent and current history, in ways that are both comical and tragic.