Tony Kushner's Latest Marquee-Unfriendly Play

Tony Kushner, the award-winning playwright behind the landmark Angels in America, is hard at work on a new piece.

Its tentative title? The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures.

There's no word on the plot yet - and if there were, it might take too much room here to explain - but it's reportedly going to deal with gay issues in a family setting.

So pity the poor person assigned to arrange those letters on a marquee, but don't pity the theater company that commissioned the work.

That would be the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, a highly respected regional theater that will undoubtedly make an even bigger name for itself when the piece has its world premiere there in spring of 2009.

It's good to have friends in high places.