The Illusion to Complete Signature Theatre's Tony Kushner Season

Tony Kushner’s The Illusion, a “freely adapted” version of Pierre Corneille’s L’Illusion Comique, will be the final production in Signature Theatre Company’s 2010-2011 all-Kushner season. Directed by Michael Mayer, The Illusion will be presented at the Peter Norton Space in Spring 2011. No casting has been set.

Described as Kushner's most joyfully theatrical play, The Illusion centers on a lawyer, facing mortality, who is desperate to find the son he drove away years before. He travels in the dead of night to a mysterious cave where he engages the services of a wizard, who conjures up visions of the romantic, adventurous, perilous life the lawyer's son has been living since his father expelled him from home.

The Illusion joins the previously announced first New York revival of Parts 1 and 2 of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes and the New York premiere of The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, which will be presented at the Public Theater. The season will also include the Tony Kushner Reading Series of plays to be selected from A Bright Room Called Day; Tiny Kushner (a new collection of one-acts), It’s an Undoing World, or Why Should It Be Easy When It Can Be Hard?; The Henry Box Brown Play; Hydriotaphia, or the Death of Dr. Browne and Homebody/Kabul.