7 Tony Kushner first editions are documented on this shelf, from Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches (1993) to The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures (2023) across 3 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Tony Kushner title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.
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- Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches — 1993 · Theatre Communications GroupTCG hardcover (ISBN 1-55936-060-7) and a simultaneous wrappered issue (ISBN 1-55936-061-5). Copyright page of the first printing states 'First Edition, April 1993' with no later-printing line. The true-first hardcover dust jacket carries the original price on the front flap. 119 pp. The hardcover is the more collectible state. US TCG edition (April 1993) is generally taken as the true first in book form; a Nick Hern Books UK acting-text edition also appeared in 1993. Collect the stated 'First Edition, April 1993' TCG hardcover with a priced dust jacket. A US book-club hardcover does exist and is the most common confusion: book-club copies lack the price on the dust jacket flap and the volume is roughly a centimeter shorter than the true first. Also beware later TCG printings that add or advance a printing line, and the combined Part One/Part Two omnibus volumes (1995 onward), which are not the first.
- A Bright Room Called Day — 1994 · Broadway Play PublishingIssued in wrappers. Broadway Play Publishing published the acting edition (ISBN 0881456314); Theatre Communications Group also carried the play in the early-to-mid 1990s. Both are softcover playtexts. Precedence between the Broadway Play Publishing acting edition and the Theatre Communications Group text is not cleanly established from available sources; sources give the BPPI edition dates variously around 1991 and 1994. Treat the exact first-issue publisher and year as unresolved and verify the copyright/printing statement on the physical copy before relying on precedence. No book club edition.
- Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika — 1994 · Theatre Communications GroupTCG edition, 1994 (ISBN 1-55936-073-9), issued in hardcover and in wrappers. Copyright page carries 1992/1994 (and later 1995) copyright dates; the true first printing states 'First Edition' for 1994 with no later printing noted, and the hardcover dust jacket carries the original price on the front flap. The text was still being revised, so later printings (for example 'Fourth printing, November 1994') differ;…. US TCG 1994 is the first separate book edition of the completed Part Two. It pairs with Millennium Approaches; a true two-volume first set is the 1993 Part One first and the 1994 Part Two first. A US book-club hardcover of Perestroika exists, distinguished from the true first by the absence of a price on the dust jacket flap and a slightly shorter format. The revised combined omnibus 'Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes' (1995, ISBN 1-55936-107-7) is a later 'first thus,' not the original Perestroika first. Watch for printings with altered text or an advanced printing line.
- Slavs! — 1995 · Theatre Communications GroupWrappers; Theatre Communications Group, New York, 1995 (full title Slavs! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness). Softcover trade playtext. US TCG 1995 softcover is the trade first. A separate Broadway Play Publishing acting edition followed in 1996 and does not precede it. No book club edition.
- Homebody/Kabul — 2002 · Theatre Communications GroupSoftcover in wrappers; Theatre Communications Group, New York, 2002 (ISBN 155936209X / 9781559362092), a stated first edition of the trade playtext. Kushner revised the play after its December 2001 New York premiere, so this 2002 TCG printing sets the first published, revised text; distinguish the first printing by the stated first-edition line on the copyright page. The US TCG 2002 softcover is the first published edition. Later TCG printings and subsequent revised editions follow and should be separated by the printing/edition statement on the copyright page. No book-club edition; identify the first printing by the stated first-edition line rather than jacket points, as the book is a paperback in wrappers.
- Caroline, or Change — 2004 · Theatre Communications GroupTrade paperback in wrappers; Theatre Communications Group, New York, 2004 (musical libretto, book and lyrics by Tony Kushner, music by Jeanine Tesori). ISBN 1559362480 / 9781559362481. Issued shortly after the Broadway transfer to the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. The US Theatre Communications Group edition (2004) is the first published book form, preceding the UK Nick Hern Books edition, which appeared in 2006 alongside the National Theatre British premiere. No book-club edition; issued only as a TCG trade paperback.
- The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures — 2023 · Theatre Communications GroupTrade paperback in wrappers, published by Theatre Communications Group on 10 October 2023; ISBN 1559364890 / 9781559364898, 192 pages, roughly 5.4 by 8.5 inches. As a paperback original there is no dust jacket; the printed cover price should be present. The full four-line title reads The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures. The first published book edition of this play from Theatre Communications Group is the 2023 trade paperback; there was no 2011 TCG book edition despite the play's 2009 premiere and 2011 revised staging. No book-club edition; issued only as a TCG trade paperback in wrappers.
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