Tony Kushner
Coming soon to Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida — a great place to visit in February! — is Arlene Hutton’s Letters to Sala, based on my book, Sala’s Gift. Arlene (aka Beth Lincks), directed by Eric Nightengale.
I will be there as Scholar in Residence from February 11 to 14. Here’s more info on getting tickets for the play, which opens on February 11.
Special guests SALA and SIDNEY will be there for the matinee on Sunday, February 13, weather and health permitting.
I’m not related to Tony Kushner, though I’d be mighty proud if I were. We do have a connection (other than my admiration for his work), and that is through Larry Sacharow, award-winning director of Edward Albee and head of the theatre program at Fordham….and a dear friend who died much much too young.
Larry was the first person to conceptualize a play based on my mother’s letters — my book hadn’t even been written yet. The first reading of the play was done at the opening of the “Letters to Sala” exhibit at New York Public Library, and the three readers were Marion Seldes, Wendy Vanden Heuvel, and Larry’s daughter Nina. Larry brought in playwright Arlene Hutton, aka Beth Lincks, to write the play, which has now had productions and readings in about ten different amazing places, beginning with Tucson’s wonderful Invisible Theatre, directed by Suz Classen.
Larry would have loved the strength and intelligence and humor that Arlene has brought to the play.