Tag: Tony Kushner

  • Arts & Culture

    Tony Kushner on Jewishness, Spielberg, ‘unsafe’ art

    Pulitzer-winning playwright reflects on roots, “unsafe” art, working with Spielberg.

    Tony Kushner.
  • Arts & Culture

    At Du Bois awards, the stars aligned

    The six medalists at the W.E.B. Du Bois awards included a White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, playwright Tony Kushner, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor, the commissioner of the NBA David Stern, and Hollywood director Steven Spielberg.

  • Campus & Community

    Six luminaries to receive Du Bois Medal

    Harvard University announced Sept. 18 that it will award the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal to six leaders across government, the arts, and athletics during a ceremony on Oct. 2. The ceremony will also mark the launch of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.

  • Arts & Culture

    Lincoln’s dimensions

    Screenwriter and playwright Tony Kushner sat down with President Drew Faust to dissect Abraham Lincoln’s legacy and talk history, politics, and writing after a Harvard-sponsored screening of his new biopic, “Lincoln.”