Hello and welcome to Wise is happening with me your host Chris Hayes. Well a special surprise in your smartphone on this Wednesday

I am here to announce to you and to you only well to you first

The final date on our fall with puddle it has been an amazing tour so far

We did Ted Cruz in Texas. We did Adam McCain or Marlotte cotton L.A. I'm gonna do Nicole Hannah Jones and Eburm Kendie in

Chicago and on December 8th in New York City

If you happen to be here if you're in the Tri-State area

Literally one of my greatest intellectual heroes one of the people one of the writers who is most

Influence me one of the public intellectuals and writers and thinkers. I most admire

One of the people that who's writing I have read every last sentence of and can quote

The one and only Tony Kushner the pull it surprise winning playwright of angels in America

Among a vast

Corpus of incredible work. He wrote the screenplay for Lincoln

He has a his one of his first plays which is an incredible piece of work called a bright room called day

Is being remounted right now and what's fascinating about that is that a bright room called called day

Originally was published during the Reagan era and it follows a group of Vimar era

German leftists wrestling with the rise of Hitler and then cuts back and forth to

Then modern day Reagan's America

My understanding and I haven't seen it yet is the new version

cuts back and forth with modern day Trump's America

So we're gonna have a conversation about politics about theater particularly about spectacle and storytelling at this moment and the ways in which

spectacle and storytelling can work in both sort of like morally elevated ways and also

Incredibly destructive ways as we see the president Marshall

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