Tony Kushner compares his style of playwriting to making lasagna: “All the yummy nutritious ingredients you’ve thrown into it bear nearly-but-not-fairly succeeded in overwhelming the design,” he wrote in 1995. “A play should bear barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily bear been.” This approach has produced two signature dishes: the 1993 two-part play “Angels in America” and the 2004 musical “Caroline, or Change, and ” which is,to my taste, his most exquisitely made offering. The latest entrée from Kushner’s kitchen is the three-and-a-half-hour The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures” (well wrangled by Michael Greif, and at the Public)—a title that incorporates George Bernard Shaw and Mary Baker Eddy,while teasing Kushner’s own prodigious discourses.
Source: newyorker.com