Angels in America playwright and Pulitzer Prize-winner Tony Kushner will visit Guilford College on Feb. 19 to give a reading and join a distinguished, five-member panel to discuss theater’s potential power to create social and political change within our society.Joining Kushner in discussion will be Jack Zerbe, Guilford’s associate professor of theater studies and moderator for the event, Maria Irene Fornes (nationally celebrated playwright), Gerald Freedman (director and dean of theater at the North Carolina School of the Arts), David Hammond (artistic director of Playmakers Repertoire in Chapel Hill, NC), and Dr. Donald Wolfe (emeritus director of drama at Wake Forest).

The event will take place in Dana Auditorium and is open to the public free of charge. Guilford’s Dept. of Theater Studies and the Bryan Distinguished Visiting Professorship fund are sponsoring Kushner’s visit and the panel discussion.

Guilford’s Theater Studies Department is devoting its 2000-2001 main-stage season to Kushner’s controversial two-part drama, Angels in America, which concerns the gay community’s response to the AIDS crisis during the mid-’80s. Part I: Millennium Approaches, was an enormous success last fall at Guilford, with an unheard-of extended run.
Part II: Perestroika will run at Guilford on April 6, 7, 12-14.
The Theatre Studies department hopes to raise $10,000 from the production to benefit the local non-profit AIDS prevention agency, Triad Health Project.
For more information, call 316-2414.