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Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner by Freida Lee Mock | Click to read the synopsis

Tony Kushner, whose epochal Angels in America won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award, has emerged as one of the country's leading playwrights — and one of its fiercest moral critics. In the film, Oscar-winning director Freida Lee Mock followed Kushner for three tumultuous years, from September 11, 2001, up to the 2004 presidential election, to delve into the passions that keep him reaching for the great American play. | Read the synopsis »

Premiered: Dec. 12, 2007 at 9PM | Check for Rebroadcasts

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Behind the Lens: Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock

NPR's Talk of the Nation featured P.O.V. filmmaker Freida Lee Mock and playwright Tony Kushner earlier this week. Listen to their interview on the NPR website.

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A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD

Watch these extended clips not seen in the film, including Kushner in conversation with playwrights Larry Kramer, Terrence McNally and others at a New York TimesTalk panel, his full commencement speech at Vassar College and a Q&A he conducted in front of students at Northwestern University.   » 

TONY AFTER THE FILM

Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock talks about what Tony Kushner has written since filming ended, what the reaction to the film from audiences around the world has been and about what she's working on now.  » 

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Posted December 5, 2007

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