Pulitzer Prize Winner to Speak at Ohio Dominican
October 24, 2002
Award-winning playwright Tony Kushner will open Ohio Dominican University's 2002-03 Presidential Lecture Series on Thursday, November 14, at 7:30 p.m. in The Little Theater of Erskine Hall.
Kushner won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part 1, and Millennium Approaches. The second part of the epic, Angels in America, Perestroika, also garnered awards and admiring reviews, as did his recent Homebody/Kabul, a play about Afghanistan in the late 1990s, written before September 11. London's National Theater selected Angels in America as one of the ten best plays of the 20th Century.
Kushner has received numerous significant awards and prizes for these and other works. Kushner takes his audiences on a journey into the deepest parts of piercing political and philosophical issues to search for understanding and responsibility. He writes and speaks on timeless issues of faith, death and life.
His appearance at Ohio Dominican University marks the start of the 2002-03 Presidential Lecture Series, growing from the publicly acclaimed inaugural lectures last year by playwright Edward Albee and educational psychologist Howard Gardner. The evening schedule includes the speaking engagement, book signing and a reception. Books will be sold at the event.
The Tony Kushner program is free and open to the public, with reservations requested by Thursday, November 7. Kushner's presentation will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the The Little Theatre of Erskine Hall on the Ohio Dominican University campus located at 1216 Sunbury Road. Free parking will be available.
