Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

A documentary about outspoken playwright Tony Kushner is too reverent to dig deeply. Anyone seeking an approximation of Kushner's uniquely cerebral theatricality will have to look elsewhere.What Mock does manage to convey, as she trails Kushner around his home in Manhattan, his never-ending lecture-circuit stops, the place where he grew up in Lake Charles, La. ... Full Review

the incorporated production footage seems clumsy in the extreme.....Wrestling With Angels" has a rough, low-budget directness that doesn't quite achieve the intimacy it desires.... ... Full Review

Michael Burke (right), of Slamdance short film Dirty Glitter, with a friend. The Outfest Queer Brunch is one of the hottest parties for actual filmmakers at Sundance. ... Full Review

is a respectful and intelligent documentary that leaves you wanting more-much more.....Best viewed as a primer to the life and art of its brilliant, voluble subject, Wrestling With Angels....if she were either too impressed or intimidated by Kushner to do more than simply scratch the affable surface of this complicated and passionate artist..... ... Full Review

Shadowing Kushner during the incredibly fecund period from 2001 to 2004, the movie documents his prescient response to Sept. As director, writer and producer, Mock smartly fills in the blanks with footage of Kushner describing how he went from being a medieval history major at Columbia to a Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist - and how the contours of his life have been shaped into art. ... Full Review

Print this story WHILE YOU'RE IN TOWN... Playwright Tony Kushner on Thursday will take a break from working on his new play at the Guthrie Theater to receive recognition at the University of Minnesota. ... Full Article

Playwright Tony Kushner was visibly choked up Friday as he took the stage at the Guthrie Theater for the opening-night curtain call of "Caroline, or Change," his semi-autobiographical opera now making its regional premiere. ... Full Article

"Alice in Wonderland": The classic tale by the Hartland Players' Encore Youth Theater, 7:30 p.m. Sat. Hartland Performing Arts Center, 9525 E. Highland, Howell. $5. ... Full Article

The Guthrie Theater has cast more than 25 Twin Cities and New York actors for the shows in the upcoming festival devoted to the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner. ... Full Article

One of American theater's most thought-provoking and politically astute playwrights takes center stage himself in filmmaker Freida Lee Mock's Wrestling With Angels . A naturally charismatic and entertaining figure, Kushner is utterly watchable. ... Full Article

The opening shots of "Wrestling With Angels," Freida Lee Mock's documentary about the playwright Tony Kushner , aren't promising. Clip from "Homebody/Kabul," then a shot of Kushner typing. ... Full Article