Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

Playwright Tony Kushner became a public figure with his astonishing play Angels in America, and Wrestling with Angels provides an intimate, often humorous look at his life as a gay, Jewish, leftist artist and citizen. The film begins in 2001, when Kushner was mounting the production of his play Homebody/Kabul and runs through 2004, as he worked on John Kerry's presidential campaign, got married to Mark Harris, worked with Maurice Sendak on a children's play, and opened the Broadway musical Caroline, or Change. (98 mins., 35mm)