Tony Kushner – MRQE

Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Legendary and controversial attorney Roy Cohn was a power broker in the rough and tumble world of New York City business and politics. Senator Joseph R. McCarthys top counsel during investigations into Communist activities in the 1950s, Cohn is also known for being Donald Trumps former personal lawyer, fixer and mentor. Focusing on key periods of his life, and drawing on extensive, newly unearthed archival material, a new documentary on Cohns life will debut on HBO in 2019.

The Royal Road

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A fascinating and unlikely reinvention story, The Royal Road simultaneously explores cinematic spiritual channeling, the conquest and colonization of Mexico and the American Southwest, fading historical Californian urban landscapes, and the passions found in butch identity to achieve an achingly beautiful and poetic defense of remembering. Probing roads from El Camino Real, to the Boulevard of Broken Dreams, to the road right outside the front door, Olson crafts a deeply intelligent and transcending observation of the human condition that reaches for redemption in the embrace of history, nostalgia, mindfulness, and sheer beauty. If you give yourself over to it, it will crack you wide open.

Theater of War

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A behind-the-scenes look at The Public Theater’s production of Bertolt Brecht’s “Mother Courage” that examines the playwright’s life and ideas.

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock explores the life and work of playwright Tony Kushner. Starting in 2001, when Kushner was mounting the production of his play Homebody/Kabul and running through 2004, as he worked on John Kerry’s presidential campaign, got married to Mark Harris, worked with Maurice Sendak, and opened the Broadway musical Caroline, or Change.