The Center for Fiction is thrilled to welcome legendary playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America) to celebrate the first print publication of The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures (or iHo). In this play—which opened at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis in 2009 and had its Off-Broadway premiere at The Public Theater in 2011—Gus Marcantonio, a retired longshoreman, summons his adult children home to the family’s Brooklyn brownstone to discuss his recent decision to commit suicide. Kushner will discuss his epic tale of revolution, radicalism, family, love, sex, politics, real estate, unions, and debts both unpaid and unpayable, full of soaring intellect, searing emotion, and biting wit. Author Isaac Butler will join Kushner in conversation following a reading of the play by actor Linda Emond (Succession, The Gilded Age, Only Murders in the Building).
The Center for Fiction is thrilled to continue its collaboration with Theatre Communications Group for this event, with past events featuring Jackie Sibblies Drury and Claudia Rankine; Annie Baker and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins; Heidi Schreck and Paula Vogel; Sarah Ruhl and Matthew Aucoin; Aleshea Harris and Nissy Aya; Lynn Nottage and Damon Tabor; Martyna Majok, Naveen Kumar, and David Zayas; Taylor Mac and Laura Collins-Hughes; Will Arbery, Chloé Cooper Jones, and Leslie Jamson; and James Ijames.
Each ticket (in-person and livestream) will come with a signed copy of iHo.