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""Offers the chance to banquet on rich and delectable passions and ideas, washed down with lashings of wit. . . . Its big argumentative poetry screams out that history matters.""-The Nation ""A brainy, brawny, thematically expansive work, stuffed with challenging sociopolitical ideas and dialectical fireworks. . . . Kushner's social engagement and his intellectualism are balanced, as always, by his penetrating humanism.""-Hollywood Reporter Gus Marcantonio, a retired longshoreman, summons his adult children home to the family's Brooklyn brownstone to discuss his recent decision to commit suicide. With his trademark mix of soaring intellect, searing emotion, and biting wit, legendary playwright Tony Kushner unfurls an epic tale of revolution, radicalism, family, love, sex, politics, real estate, unions and debts both unpaid and unpayable. With sweeping themes as hefty as its title, ""IHo"" (as it has been nicknamed) explores the dense and vexing issues that stem from the betrayal of a failed ideology and the challenges of family connectedness. This cerebral mammoth of a play asks what is left when the long-held belief systems that construct and inform one's identity prove to be empty. An extraordinary play from the renowned author of Angels in America. Tony Kushner is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, two Evening Standard Awards, an Olivier Award, an Emmy Award, two Oscar nominations, and the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, among other honors. In 2012, he was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama.

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'A vast, rich work of public-intellectual engagement... The values built into this beautifully inquiring play operate outside of common dramatic economies. Kushner's carefully organized labor of love is a spur to the active mind' * Time Out New York * 'Thrillingly ambitious... I walked into New York's Public Theater... genuinely excited to find out what was on the author's mind and left with enough food for thought to last a theatrical winter' * Los Angeles Times * 'One of the most absorbing dramas on the London stage' * Observer * 'Dramatic ambition and intellectual elan' * Telegraph * 'A massively stimulating evening' * Independent *

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Tony Kushner's plays includeAngels in America,A Bright Room Called Day,Slavs!,Homebody/Kabul, and the musicalCaroline, or Changewith composer Jeanine Tesori. He has adapted Corneille'sThe Illusion, Ansky'sThe Dybbuk, and Brecht'sThe Good Person of SzechuanandMother Courage and Her Children. He wrote the screenplay for Mike Nichols's film ofAngels in America, and the screenplays for Steven Spielberg'sMunich,Lincoln,West Side Story, andThe Fabelmans. His books includeWrestling with Zion, co-edited with Alisa Solomon;Brundibar, illustrated by Maurice Sendak; andThe Art of Maurice Sendak, 1980 to the Present. Kushner was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama. He lives in Manhattan with his husband, Mark Harris.

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