Awards

• Winner of Best Musical, Critics Circle Awards 2006
• Winner of Best New Musical, Olivier Awards 2007

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'Extraordinary... blends socio-historical breadth with intoxicating imagination' * The Times * 'A modern masterpiece of considerable heft' * Evening Standard * 'Magnificent... a thought-provoking and satisfying joy' * WhatsOnStage * 'Fantastic... Kushner's writing achieves something rare: it points to hope, while issuing a reminder that what looks like change can be just going round in so many circles' * Time Out, London * 'Extraordinary... Perhaps no one short of the author of Angels in America could pull this off... you feel that mixture of terror and rapture that arrives on those rare occasions in theatre and in life when you genuinely don't know what's going to happen next' * New York Times * 'Groundbreaking, daring, beautiful and profoundly humane. The best show of the year' * Time Out New York * 'Amazing piece of music-theatre... combines great dramatic intensity with wild flights of fantasy and music of thrilling variety and strength... the daring mixture of whimsy, passion and radical politics succeeds triumphantly' * Daily Telegraph * 'Remarkable... Kushner's non-linear book focuses on a relationship while giving us a kaleidoscopic portrait of a community... the ultimate upstairs-downstairs musical' * Guardian * 'Electrifying... there are moments in the history of theatre when stagecraft takes a new turn. This happened for the musical when Caroline, or Change bushwacked a path beyond the musical of the past thirty years' * New Yorker * 'The first great piece of musical theater of the 21st century' * Boston Globe * 'A monumental achievement. Joyful, wholly successful, immensely moving, told with abundant wit and generosity of heart... the finest musical to come our way in a long, long time' * New York Observer *

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Tony Kushner is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Tony Kushner's other plays include A Bright Room Called Day; Hydriotaphia, or The Death of Dr. Brown; The Illusion, adapted from the play by Pierre Corneille; Slavs!; Homebody/Kabul; Caroline, or Change, a musical with composer Jeanine Tesori; The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures; and The Visit, adapted from the play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. His translations include S. Y. Ansky's The Dybbuk; Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Sezuan and Mother Courage and Her Children; and the libretto for Hans Krása and Adolf Hoffmeister's Brundibár, a children's opera for which he wrote a curtain-raiser, But the Giraffe! He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols's film of Angels in America and for Steven Spielberg's Munich and Lincoln. His books include The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the Present; Brundibar, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak; and Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, co-edited with Alisa Solomon. Among many honours, 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. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2012, he was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama. Jeanine Tesori is an American composer and musical arranger whose work includes Fun Home, Caroline, or Change, Shrek The Musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Violet.

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