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Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a 1991 American two-part play by American playwright Tony Kushner. The two parts of the play, Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, may be presented separately.
Angels in America focuses on the stories of two troubled couples, one gay, one straight: "word processor" Louis Ironson and his lover Prior Walter, and Mormon lawyer Joe Pitt and his wife Harper. After the funeral of Louis's grandmother, Prior tells him that he has contracted AIDS, and Louis panics.
Apr 9, 2018 · “Angels in America”: Brilliant, Maddening, and Necessary. Tony Kushner’s masterwork reminds us how sexuality dictates and shapes its own culture. By Hilton Als. April 9, 2018. Part...
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a two-part play by Tony Kushner that explores the AIDS crisis and its impact on the LGBTQ+ community in the United States during the 1980s. Divided into two parts, Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, the play weaves together themes of politics, religion, and human connection. It follows ...
Aug 10, 2014 · “Angels” is the intrepid company’s most ambitious show since the shift. The Tony, Emmy and Pulitzer-honored, politically outspoken Kushner has moved on too. He’s penned the Steven Spielberg films...
Jun 28, 2016 · Twenty-five years ago this summer, Tony Kushner’s Angels in America premiered in the tiny Eureka Theatre in San Francisco’s Mission District.
Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches. Watch Angels in America the play online with National Theatre at Home. This is part one of the part two play. America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, six New Yorkers with interconnect lives grapple with life and death, love and sex ...
The most ambitious American play of our time: an epic that ranges from earth to heaven; focuses on politics, sex and religion; transports us to Washington, the Kremlin, the South Bronx, Salt Lake City and Antarctica; deals with Jews, Mormons, WASPs, blacks; switches between realism and fantasy, from the tragedy of AIDS to the camp comedy of ...
Other articles where Angels in America is discussed: American literature: The Off-Broadway ascendancy: …his epically ambitious two-part drama Angels in America (1991–92), which combined comedy with pain, symbolism with personal history, and invented characters with historical ones. A committed political writer, Kushner often focused on public themes.
1 Season. HBO. Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction. TVMA. Watchlist. Brilliant adaptation of Tony Kushner's award-winning play about the dawn of AIDS in the 1980s, focusing on a powerful...
