Wrestling with Roy

by | Apr 25, 2011 | City on Stage, People, Writing New York

As we wrap up our discussion of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America in today’s Writing New York lecture, we’ll be talking in part about what Kushner gets out of incorporating historical figures such as Roy Cohn and Ethel Rosenberg into his play. Readers...

Saved by Angels?

by | Apr 20, 2011 | City on Stage, Film, Writing New York

We’re closing in on the end of our Writing New York semester with some texts that explore utopian and dystopian elements of New York City at the end of the 20th century and start of the 21st. When we first taught this course in 2003, most students hadn’t...