Photo Flash: The Tricycle Theatre Presents TINY KUSHNER

Dr. Arnold A. Hutschnecker in Paradise

Only We Who Guard The Mystery Shall Be Unhappy

Flip Flop Fly!

A bizarre lunar encounter between two dead women, Lucia Pamela - the fabulous American concert pianist, singer, songwriter, recording star, bandleader and radio personality, who claimed to have made a record album on the moon in1969 - and Geraldine, the deposed queen of Albania. With one nattering on about her life in entertainment and the other about her life in exile, the two compare the courses of their lives.

Terminating or Sonnet LXXV or "Lass Meine Schmerzen Nicht Verloren Sein" or Ambivalence

Sitting in an office are Esther, an analyst, and her former patient, Hendryk, along with their lovers, Dymphna and Billygoat , respectively, as Hendryk, pleads with Esther to take him back as a patient.

East Coast Ode to Howard Jarvis: a little teleplay in tiny monologues

An outrageous 1990s scheme actually used to avoid paying taxes. As a housing detective discovers its success, news of the fraud spreads rapidly, prompting the government to investigate.

Dr. Arnold A. Hutschnecker in Paradise

Metatron , a Recording Angel with a million eyes, is holding a supervisory session with Dr. Hutschneker in an upscale office in heaven. The two discuss how Hutschneker's pains and his denial of mortality could quite possibly be related to his sessions with his own patient, Richard Milhous Nixon, with whom he frequently meets in the afterlife.

Only We Who Guard The Mystery Shall Be Unhappy

Now-former First Lady Laura Bush reads from The Brothers Karamazov to the pyjama-clad ghosts of dead Iraqi children, all of whom are watched over by an angel.

Tony Kushner is one of America's most prolific playwrights and the winner of awards including the Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, an Emmy Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, two Evening Standard Awards and a Golden Globe. His plays include Angels in America, A Bright Room Called Day, Homebody/Kabul, Hydriotaphia, The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, and Slavs! He also wrote the book and lyrics for Caroline, or Change, a musical composed by Jeanine Tesori. Kushner has translated and adapted the libretto for the children's opera Brundibar by Hans Krása, The Dybbuk by S.Y. Ansky, The Illusion by Pierre Corneille and two scripts by Bertolt Brecht: The Good Person of Sezuan and Mother Courage and her Children. He wrote screenplays for Angels in America, directed by Mike Nichols, and Munich, directed by Steven Spielberg. Kushner's books include Brundibar, The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the Present and Wrestling With Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, co-edited with Alisa Solomon. He is also the subject of Wrestling with Angels, a documentary made by Oscar-winning filmmaker Freida Lee Mock.

Tony Taccone is Artistic Director of Berkeley Repertory Theatre, where he has staged more than thirty five shows - including world premieres by Culture Clash, Rinde Eckert, David Edgar, Danny Hoch, Geoff Hoyle, Quincy Long and Itamar Moses. Taccone made his Broadway debut with Bridge & Tunnel and last year returned there to direct Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking. In 2004, his premiere of Continental Divide transferred to the Barbican after a run at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse and Birmingham Repertory Theatre. He commissioned Tony Kushner's Angels in America, co-directed its world premiere, and has collaborated with Kushner on seven projects including Brundibar and Tiny Kushner. 

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