Angels in America - wikipedia Angels in America For the miniseries, see Angels in America ( miniseries ). Angels in America : Millennium Approaches Written by Tony Kushner Characters Prior Walter Roy Cohn Joe Pitt Harper Pitt Hannah Pitt Louis Ironson Belize Ethel Rosenberg Homeless Woman Angel Date premiered May 1991 Place premiered Eureka Theatre Company San Francisco, California Original language English Genre Drama Setting New York City, Salt Lake City and elsewhere, 1985 -- 1986 Angels in America : Perestroika Written by Tony Kushner Characters Prior Walter Roy Cohn Joe Pitt Harper Pitt Hannah Pitt Louis Ironson Belize Ethel Rosenberg Homeless Woman Angel Date premiered November 8, 1992 Place premiered Mark Taper Forum Los Angeles, California Original language English Genre Drama Setting New York City and elsewhere, 1986 -- 1990 Angels in America : A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a two - part play by American playwright Tony Kushner. The work won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play. Part one of the play premiered in 1991 and its Broadway opening was in 1993. The play is a complex, often metaphorical, and at times symbolic examination of AIDS and homosexuality in America in the 1980s. Certain major and minor characters are supernatural beings ( angels ) or deceased persons ( ghosts ). The play contains multiple roles for several of the actors. Initially and primarily focusing on a gay couple in Manhattan, the play also has several other storylines, some of which occasionally intersect. The two parts of the play are separately presentable and entitled Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, respectively. The play has been adapted into a 2003 miniseries of the same title, and a 2004 opera by Peter Eötvös. Contents 1 Plot 1.1 Part One : Millennium Approaches 1.2 Part Two : Perestroika 2 Characters 3 Production history 4 Staging 5 Adaptations 5.1 Film 5.2 Opera 5.3 Music 6 Critical reception 6.1 Controversy 7 Awards and nominations 7.1 2018 revival 8 See also 9 References 10 External links Plot Part one : Millennium Approaches Set in New York City, the play opens at the end of October 1985, with Louis Ironson, a gay Jew, learning that his lover, WASP Prior Walter, has AIDS. As Prior 's illness progresses, Louis becomes unable to cope and moves out, leaving Prior to deal with his abandonment. Prior begins to receive visits from a pair of ghosts who claim to be his own ancestors, and hears an angelic voice telling him to prepare for her arrival. Prior does not know if these visitations are caused by an emotional breakdown or if they are real. Meanwhile, closeted gay Mormon and Republican Joe Pitt, a law clerk in the same judge 's office where Louis holds a clerical job, is offered a position in Washington, D.C., by his mentor, the McCarthyist lawyer Roy Cohn. Joe hesitates to accept out of concern for his agoraphobic wife Harper, who refuses to move. Harper suspects that Joe does not love her in the same way she loves him, which is confirmed when Joe confesses his homosexuality. Harper retreats into a drug - fueled escapist fantasy, including a dream where she crosses paths with Prior even though the two of them have never met in the real world. Joe 's conservative mother Hannah arrives in New York, where she finds that in reality Harper has been wandering the streets of the city while Joe begins an affair with Louis. Denying her son 's homosexuality, Hannah instead tries to force a reconciliation between Harper and Joe. Connecting all these characters is Roy Cohn, himself deeply closeted, who has just learned he has AIDS. Cohn uses his political connections to secure a supply of an experimental drug, AZT, at the expense of withholding the drug from participants in a drug trial. Now alone in a hospital, Cohn finds himself judged by his night nurse Belize ( a former drag queen and a friend of Prior 's ) and the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg, co-defendant and executed with her husband Julius years before when Cohn was prosecutor at their espionage trial. At the end of Part One, Prior is visited by an angel, who proclaims Prior to be a prophet and tells him that `` the Great Work '' has begun. Part two : Perestroika As the play continues, it is December 1985, and the Angel reveals to Prior that Heaven is a beautiful city that resembles San Francisco, but that God, bored with his angels, made mankind with the power to change and create. The progress of mankind on Earth caused Heaven to physically deteriorate. Finally, on the day of the San Francisco earthquake, God abandoned Heaven. The Angel brings Prior a message for mankind -- `` stop moving ! '' -- in the belief that if man ceases to progress, Heaven will be restored. Prior confides this vision to Belize, but Belize believes that Prior is projecting his own fears of abandonment into an elaborate hallucination. Prior goes to a Mormon visitor 's center to research angels, where he meets Harper, who has slowly returned to reality. The two recognize each other from their shared dream. Prior collapses from pneumonia and Hannah rushes him back to the hospital. Prior tells her about his vision and is surprised when Hannah believes him based on her belief in angelic revelations within the Mormon church. At the hospital, the Angel reappears enraged that Prior rejected her message. Prior wrestles the Angel, who relents and opens a ladder into Heaven. Prior climbs into Heaven and tells the other angels that he refuses to deliver their message, as without progress, humanity will perish. Belize informs Louis about Joe 's connection with Cohn, whom Louis despises for his hypocritical anti-gay rhetoric. Louis goes to confront Joe directly, and Joe physically assaults him, after which Louis leaves him for good. Now abandoned by his wife and his lover, and with no one else to turn to, Joe goes to Cohn for guidance. Cohn, meanwhile, has just learned that his political enemies have moved to have him disbarred. Enraged, he vows to remain a lawyer until the day he dies. Rather than comforting Joe, Cohn viciously berates him for leaving his wife for another man, forcing Joe to realize that Louis 's opinion of Cohn was true. He rebukes Cohn and leaves the man to die alone. Ethel Rosenberg watches Cohn 's last supporter abandon him before delivering the final blow : Cohn has been disbarred after all. Cohn dies shortly thereafter. Belize forces Louis to visit Cohn 's room, where Louis recites the Kaddish for Cohn. Unseen by the living, Ethel joins Louis in the prayer, symbolically forgiving Cohn before she departs for the hereafter. Belize and Louis then steal Cohn 's hoarded AZT for Prior. The play concludes five years later. Prior and Louis are still separated, but Louis, along with Belize, remains close in order to support and care for Prior ; Harper forgave Joe, but refused to stay with him, instead moving to San Francisco ; and Hannah has found a new perspective on her rigid beliefs, allowing her to accept her son as he is. Prior, Louis, Belize, and Hannah gather before the angel statue in Bethesda Fountain. Prior talks of the legend of the Pool of Bethesda, where the sick were healed. Prior delivers the play 's final lines directly to the audience, affirming his intentions to live on and telling them that `` the Great Work '' shall continue. Characters The play is written for eight actors, each of whom plays two or more roles. Kushner 's doubling, as indicated in the published script, requires several of the actors to play the opposite gender. There are eight main characters : Prior Walter -- A gay man with AIDS. Throughout the play, he experiences various heavenly visions. When the play begins, he is dating Louis Ironson. His best friend is a nurse named Belize. Louis Ironson -- Prior 's boyfriend. Unable to deal with Prior 's disease, he ultimately abandons him. He meets Joe Pitt and later begins a relationship with him. Harper Pitt -- An agoraphobic Mormon housewife with incessant Valium - induced hallucinations. After a revelation from Prior ( whom she meets when his heavenly vision and her hallucination cross paths ), she discovers that her husband is gay and struggles with it, considering it a betrayal of her marriage. Joe Pitt -- Harper 's husband and a deeply closeted gay Mormon, clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, and friend of Roy Cohn. Joe eventually abandons his wife for a relationship with Louis. Throughout the play, he struggles with his sexual identity. Roy Cohn -- A closeted gay lawyer, based on real life Roy Cohn. Just as in history, it is eventually revealed that he has contracted HIV and the disease has progressed to AIDS, which he insists is liver cancer to preserve his reputation. Hannah Pitt -- Joe 's mother. She moves to New York after her son drunkenly comes out to her on the phone. She arrives to find that Joe has abandoned his wife. Belize -- A former drag queen, he is Prior 's ex-boyfriend and best friend. He later becomes Roy Cohn 's nurse. The Angel / Voice -- A messenger from Heaven who visits Prior and tells him he 's a prophet. There are also a series of supporting and minor characters played by the core eight actors : Rabbi Isidor Chemelwitz -- An elderly orthodox Rabbi. He performs the funeral service for Louis ' grandmother in Act one of Millennium Approaches and gives him advice on his situation with Prior. Played by the actor playing Hannah. Mr. Lies -- One of Harper 's imaginary friends. A smooth talking agent for the International Order of Travel Agents. Played by the actor playing Belize. Emily -- A smart - mouthed nurse who attends to Prior. Played by the actor playing the Angel. Henry -- Roy Cohn 's doctor, who diagnoses him with AIDS. Played by the actor playing Hannah. Martin Heller -- A publicity agent to the Reagan Administration 's Justice Department and Roy 's toady. Played by the actor playing Harper. Ethel Rosenberg -- The ghost of a woman executed for being a Communist spy, based on the real life Ethel Rosenberg. She visits Roy, whom she blames for her conviction and execution. Played by the actor playing Hannah. Prior 1 and Prior 2 -- The ghosts of two of Prior Walter 's ancestors. Prior 1 was a gloomy Yorkshire farmer from the 13th century while Prior 2 was a 17th - century British aristocrat. They both arrive to herald the Angel 's arrival. Played by the actors playing Joe and Roy, respectively. The Man in the Park -- A gay prostitute Louis has sex with in Central Park. Played by the actor playing Prior. Sister Ella Chapter -- Hannah 's realtor friend who helps her sell her house. Played by the actor playing the Angel. A Homeless Woman -- A crazed homeless woman Hannah encounters when she arrives in New York. Played by the actor playing the Angel. The Eskimo -- An imaginary friend in Harper 's Antarctic hallucination. Played by the actor playing Joe. Aleksii Antedilluvianovich Prelapsarianov -- `` The World 's Oldest Living Bolshevik '', whose speech in the opening of Perestroika sets up the theme of whether the world should continue to move forward. Played by the actor playing Hannah. Mormon Family -- A mannequin family in the Diorama Room of the Mormon Visitors ' Center where Hannah and Harper volunteer. The father resembles Joe, and later becomes him in Harper 's delusions. He is played by the actor playing Joe. The mother comes to life in Harper 's imagination and speaks to her. She is played by the actor playing the Angel. The two sons, Caleb and Orrin, are voiced offstage by the actors playing Belize and the Angel respectively. The Continental Principalities -- The Angel Council Prior confronts in Heaven. They are in charge of both Heaven and Earth after God 's desertion. They are the Angels Europa ( played by the actor playing Joe ), Africanii ( played by the actor playing Harper ), Oceania ( played by the actor playing Belize ), Asiatica ( played by the actor playing Hannah ), Australia ( played by the actor playing Louis ), and Antarctica ( played by the actor playing Roy ). Production history Front cover of the programme for the 1992 National Theatre production of part one of the play. Angels in America was commissioned by the Eureka Theatre in San Francisco, by co-artistic directors Oskar Eustis and Tony Taccone. It was first performed in Los Angeles as a workshop in May 1990 by the Center Theatre Group at the Mark Taper Forum. Millennium Approaches premiered in May 1991 in a production performed by the Eureka Theatre Company of San Francisco, directed by David Esbjornson. In London it premiered in a National Theatre production at the Cottesloe Theatre, directed by Declan Donnellan. Henry Goodman played Cohn, Nick Reding played Joe, Felicity Montagu played Harper, Marcus D'Amico played Louis, and Sean Chapman played Prior. Opening on January 23, 1992, the London production ran for a year. In November 1992 it visited Düsseldorf as part of the first Union des Théâtres de l'Europe festival. The play 's second part, Perestroika, was still being developed as Millennium Approaches was being performed. It was performed several times as staged readings by both the Eureka Theatre ( during the world premiere of part one in 1991 ), and the Mark Taper Forum ( in May 1992 ). It premiered in November 1992 in a production by the Mark Taper Forum, directed by Oskar Eustis and Tony Taccone. In November 1993 it received its London debut in a National Theatre production on the Cottesloe stage, in repertory with a revival of Millennium Approaches, again directed by Declan Donnellan. David Schofield played Cohn, Daniel Craig played Joe, Clare Holman played Harper, Jason Isaacs played Louis, Joseph Mydell played Belize and won the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor, and Stephen Dillane played Prior. The entire two - part play debuted on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in 1993, directed by George C. Wolfe, with Millennium Approaches performed on May 4 and Perestroika joining it in repertory on November 23, closing December 4, 1994. The original cast included Ron Leibman, Stephen Spinella, Kathleen Chalfant, Marcia Gay Harden, Jeffrey Wright, Ellen McLaughlin, David Marshall Grant and Joe Mantello. Among the replacements during the run were F. Murray Abraham ( for Ron Leibman ), Cherry Jones ( for Ellen McLaughlin ), Dan Futterman ( for Joe Mantello ), Cynthia Nixon ( for Marcia Gay Harden ) and Jay Goede ( for David Marshall Grant ). Millennium Approaches and Perestroika were awarded, in 1993 and 1994 respectively, both the Tony Awards for Best Play and Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Play. The published script indicates that Kushner made a few revisions to Perestroika in the following year. These changes officially completed the work in 1995. In 1994, the first national tour launched at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago, directed by Michael Mayer, with the following cast : Peter Birkenhead as Louis Ironson, Reginald Flowers as Belize, Kate Goehring as Harper Pitt, Jonathan Hadary as Roy Cohn, Philip E. Johnson as Joe Pitt, Barbara E. Robertson as Hannah Pitt, Robert Sella as Prior, and Carolyn Swift as the Angel. Kushner made relatively minor revisions to Millennium Approaches and additional, more substantial revisions to Perestroika during a run at the Signature Theatre in 2010, which were published in a 2013 complete edition. That production was directed by Michael Greif and featured Christian Borle as Prior, Zachary Quinto as Louis, Billy Porter as Belize, Bill Heck as Joe, Zoe Kazan as Harper, Robin Bartlett as Hannah, Frank Wood as Roy, and Robin Weigert as the angel. In 2013, a production of the two - part play was produced by Sydney - based theatre company, Belvoir. The cast featured Luke Mullins as Prior Waler, Marcus Graham as Roy Cohn, Ashley Zukerman as Joe Pitt, Amber McMahon as Harper Pitt, Robyn Nevin as Hannah Pitt, DeObia Oparei as Belize, and Paula Arundell as The Angel. The show ran from June 1 to July 14 at the Belvoir St Theatre, before transferring to the Theatre Royal for the remainder of its run. The production finished its season on July 27. A Canadian production by Soulpepper Theatre Company in 2013 and 2014 starred Damien Atkins as Prior Walter, Gregory Prest as Louis, Mike Ross as Joe, Diego Matamoros as Roy and Nancy Palk as Hannah, Ethel Rosenberg and the rabbi. Millennium Approaches made its Edinburgh Fringe Festival debut, in a production by St Andrews - based Mermaids Theatre, in August 2013 to critical acclaim. Asia premiered the play in its entirety in 1995 by the New Voice Company in the Philippines. This was followed by another production in November 2014 at the Singapore Airlines Theatre. An Italian adaptation of the play premiered in Modena in 2007, in a production directed by Ferdinando Bruni and Elio De Capitani which was awarded several national awards. The same production ran for three days in Madrid, in 2012. In April 2017, a new production began previews at the National Theatre, London in the Lyttleton Theatre. Directed by Marianne Elliott, the cast included Andrew Garfield as Prior with Russell Tovey as Joe, Denise Gough as Harper, James McArdle as Louis Ironson, and Nathan Lane as Roy Cohn. In 2018, the production was nominated for six Olivier Awards, including the Award for Best Revival. In April 2018, Gough won Best Actress in a Supporting Role and the production Best Revival. In August 2017, a new production of Millenium Approaches was brought to San Juan, Puerto Rico, by Teatro Público Inc. Directed by Benjamín Cardona, the cast featured Carlos Miranda as Roy Cohn, Jacqueline Duprey as Hannah, Gabriela Saker as Harper, Liván Albelo as Prior and Luis Ra Rivera as Joe, among others. The production received critical praise and launched the new theater company. In September 2017, a revival of the two plays were staged in Melbourne at fortyfivedownstairs for nearly a four - week run. The cast included veteran actor Helen Morse as Hannah Pitt, and Margaret Mills ( who had appeared in the original Australian premiere of the play in 1994 ) as The Angel. In February 2018, the 2017 Royal National Theatre production transferred to Broadway for an 18 - week engagement at the Neil Simon Theatre. The majority of the London cast returned, with Lee Pace replacing Tovey as Joe, and Beth Malone playing the Angel at certain performances. Previews began on February 23, 2018 with opening night on March 25. Staging Kushner prefers that the theatricality be transparent. In his notes about staging, he writes : `` The plays benefit from a pared - down style of presentation, with scenery kept to an evocative and informative minimum. (... ) I recommend rapid scene shifts ( no blackouts ! ), employing the cast as well as stagehands in shifting the scene. This must be an actor - driven event. (... ) The moments of magic (... ) are to be fully imagined and realized, as wonderful theatrical illusions -- which means it 's OK if the wires show, and maybe it 's good that they do... '' Kushner is an admirer of Brecht, who practiced a style of theatrical production whereby audiences were often reminded that they were in a theatre. The choice to have `` no blackouts '' allows audiences to participate in the construction of a malleable theatrical world. One of the many theatrical devices in Angels is that each of the eight main actors has one or several other minor roles in the play. For example, the actor playing the nurse, Emily, also plays the Angel, Sister Ella Chapter ( a real estate agent ), and a homeless woman. This doubling and tripling of roles encourages the audience to consider the elasticity of, for example, gender and sexual identities. Adaptations Film Main article : Angels in America ( miniseries ) In 2003, HBO Films created a miniseries version of the play. Kushner adapted his original text for the screen, and Mike Nichols directed. HBO broadcast the film in various formats : three - hour segments that correspond to Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, as well as one - hour `` chapters '' that roughly correspond to an act or two of each of these plays. The first three chapters were initially broadcast on December 7, to international acclaim, with the final three chapters following. Angels in America was the most watched made - for - cable movie in 2003 and won both the Golden Globe and Emmy for Best Miniseries. Kushner made certain changes to his play ( especially Part Two, Perestroika ) for it to work on screen, but the HBO version is generally a faithful representation of Kushner 's original work. Kushner has been quoted as saying that he knew Nichols was the right person to direct the movie when, at their first meeting, Nichols immediately said that he wanted actors to play multiple roles, as had been done in onstage productions. The lead cast includes Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Jeffrey Wright ( repeating his Tony - winning Broadway role ), Justin Kirk, Ben Shenkman, Patrick Wilson, and Mary - Louise Parker. Opera Angels in America -- The Opera made its world premiere at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, France, on November 23, 2004. The opera was based on both parts of the Angels in America fantasia, however the script was re-worked and condensed to fit both parts into a two and half hour show. Composer Peter Eötvös explains : `` In the opera version, I put less emphasis on the political line than Kushner... I rather focus on the passionate relationships, on the highly dramatic suspense of the wonderful text, on the permanently uncertain state of the visions. '' A German version of the opera followed suit in mid-2005. The opera made its US debut in June 2006 at the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion in Boston, Massachusetts. Music The text of Prior Walter 's soliloquy from Scene 5 of Perestroika was set to music by Michael Shaieb for a 2009 festival celebrating Kushner 's work at the Guthrie Theater. The work was commissioned by the Twin Cities Gay Men 's Chorus, which had commissioned Shaieb 's Through A Glass, Darkly in 2008. The work premiered at the Guthrie in April 2009. Critical reception Angels in America received numerous awards, including the 1993 and 1994 Tony Awards for Best Play. The play 's first part, Millennium Approaches, received the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play garnered much praise upon its release for its dialogue and exploration of social issues. `` Mr. Kushner has written the most thrilling American play in years, '' wrote The New York Times. A decade after the play 's premiere, Metro Weekly labeled it `` one of the most important pieces of theater to come out of the late 20th century. '' By contrast, in an essay titled `` Angles in America '', Lee Siegel wrote in The New Republic, `` Angels in America is a second - rate play written by a second - rate playwright who happens to be gay, and because he has written a play about being gay, and about AIDS, no one -- and I mean no one -- is going to call Angels in America the overwrought, coarse, posturing, formulaic mess that it is. '' Controversy In response to the frank treatment of homosexuality and AIDS, and brief male nudity, the play quickly became subject to controversial reaction from conservative and religious groups, sometimes labelled as being part of the `` culture war ''. In Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1996, there were protests held outside a production of the play by the Charlotte Repertory Theatre at the North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center. This led to funding cuts for the Arts and Science Council of Charlotte, the city 's arts funding agency, in the following year. Awards and nominations Millennium Approaches 1990 Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays ( non-competitive grant ) 1991 Bay Area Drama Critics Award for Best Play 1991 National Arts Club Joseph Kesselring Award 1992 Evening Standard Award for Best Play 1992 London Drama Critics Circle Award for Best New Play 1993 Drama Desk Award for Best Play 1993 New York Drama Critics ' Circle Award for Best Play 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1993 Tony Award for Best Play 1993 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, Ron Leibman ( winner ) 1993 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, Stephen Spinella ( winner ) 1993 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play, George C. Wolfe ( winner ) Perestroika 1992 Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays ( non-competitive grant ) 1992 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best New Play 1994 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play 1994 Tony Award for Best Play 1994 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, Stephen Spinella ( winner ) 1994 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, Jeffrey Wright ( winner ) 2018 revival The revival received 11 Tony Award nominations, more than any other play in history. Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, Andrew Garfield Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, Nathan Lane Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, Susan Brown Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, Denise Gough Tony Award for Best Original Score, Adrian Sutton Tony Award for Best Scenic Design in a Play, Ian MacNeil and Edward Pierce Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Play, Nicky Gillibrand Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play, Paule Constable Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play, Ian Dickinson Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play, Marianne Elliott The play won the 2018 Outer Critics Circle Awards : Outstanding Revival Of A Play ( Broadway or Off - Broadway ) Outstanding Actor In A Play, Andrew Garfield, Outstanding Featured Actor In A Play, Nathan Lane See also Art of the AIDS Crisis The World Only Spins Forward : The Ascent of Angels in America -- an oral history of the play References ^ Jump up to : `` Angles in America, Part One : Millennium Approaches Introduction ''. Shmoop. Retrieved 2018 - 03 - 15. Jump up ^ Kushner, Tony ( 2013 ). `` Millennium. Act I, Scene 1 ''. Angels In America ( 2013, Revised and Completed ed. ). New York : Theatre Communications Group. p. 9. ISBN 978 - 1 - 55936 - 384 - 6. Jump up ^ Kushner, Tony ( 2013 ). `` Perestroika. Act I, Scene 1 ''. Angels In America ( 2013, Revised and Completed ed. ). New York : Theatre Communications Group. p. 137. ISBN 978 - 1 - 55936 - 384 - 6. Jump up ^ `` Angels in America : The Complete Oral History ''. Slate.com. Jump up ^ `` The Public Theater at Stanford Presents : Artistic Team ''. The Bacchae. Stanford University. 2007. Archived from the original on 10 June 2008. Retrieved 2008 - 06 - 26. ^ Jump up to : From the programme to the RNT 's production of Millennium Approaches in 1992. ^ Jump up to : From the programme to the RNT 's production of Millennium Approaches and Perestroika in 1993. Jump up ^ Kushner, Tony. Angels in America : Parts 1 & 2, Nick Hern Books, London, 2007 Jump up ^ ' Angels in America ' Astounding ' Angels ' Jump up ^ Dziemianowicz, Joe ( 29 October 2010 ). `` Angels in America review : Zachary Quinto flies high in perfect revival of Tony Kushner play ''. NY Daily News. Retrieved 20 July 2014. Jump up ^ `` REVIEW : Angels In America, Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney ''. Crikey. 2013 - 06 - 19. Retrieved 2018 - 03 - 15. Jump up ^ Kagan, Dion ( 2013 - 06 - 19 ). `` Angels in America at Belvoir Street Theatre ''. Kill Your Darlings. Retrieved 2018 - 03 - 15. Jump up ^ Blake, Jason ( 2013 - 06 - 02 ). `` Angels soars in a new millennium ''. Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2018 - 03 - 15. Jump up ^ `` Theatre Review : Soulpepper 's Angels in America is heaven sent '' Archived October 12, 2014, at Archive.is. National Post, August 8, 2013. Jump up ^ Conian, Malcolm. `` Meeting Monique Wilson - My story ''. Fil - Event. Retrieved 2018 - 03 - 15. Jump up ^ `` Angels in America Part 1 and Part 2, LASALLE College of the Arts Events page. Accessed 11 October 2014. Jump up ^ Arrigoni, Nicola. `` ANGELS IN AMERICA - regia Ferdinando Bruni, Elio De Capitani '' ( in Italian ). Retrieved 2018 - 05 - 18. Jump up ^ `` angels in america ''. www.elfo.org. Retrieved 2018 - 05 - 18. Jump up ^ Shenton, Mark ( 11 October 2016 ). `` National Theatre Announces Additional Casting for Angels in America and Follies Playbill ''. Playbill. Retrieved 2017 - 04 - 18. Jump up ^ Lefkowitz, Andy ( 6 March 2018 ). `` Hamilton Breaks Olivier Nominations Record ; Angels in America & The Ferryman Also Honored ''. Broadway.com. Retrieved 2018 - 03 - 06. Jump up ^ `` El director Benjamín Cardona enfrenta un gran reto teatral ''. El Nuevo Dia ( in Spanish ). 2017 - 08 - 01. Retrieved 2017 - 09 - 06. Jump up ^ `` Angels in America ''. Arts Review. 2017 - 05 - 23. Retrieved 2018 - 03 - 15. Jump up ^ Woodhead, Cameron ( 2017 - 09 - 07 ). `` Angels in America review : Superior acting delivers brilliant and moving work ''. Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2018 - 03 - 15. ^ Jump up to : `` Breaking News : Lee Pace Joins ANGELS IN AMERICA on Broadway ''. BroadwayWorld.com. 2017 - 10 - 19. Retrieved 2017 - 10 - 19. Jump up ^ Lefkowitz, Andy ( 2018 - 01 - 09 ). `` Beth Malone & More to Join Nathan Lane & Andrew Garfield in Angels in America ''. Broadway.com. Retrieved 2018 - 01 - 10. Jump up ^ Wood, Alex ( 2017 - 08 - 07 ). `` Angels in America announces Broadway transfer ''. WhatsOnStage.com. Retrieved 2017 - 09 - 07. Jump up ^ Kleiman, Jaime ( 2009 - 04 - 08 ). `` Inside Guthrie 's `` Kushner Celebration '' ``. MN Artists. Retrieved 2018 - 03 - 15. Jump up ^ Rich, Frank ( May 5, 1993 ). `` Review / Theater : Angels in America : Millennium Approaches ; Embracing All Possibilities in Art and Life ''. The New York Times. Jump up ^ `` Soaring Angels : Angels in America on HBO : TV section ''. Metro Weekly. 2003 - 12 - 04. Retrieved 2012 - 01 - 14. Jump up ^ Angles in America tnr.com Jump up ^ Tannenbaum, Pery ( 7 April 2009 ). `` Southern Rapture recalls the local Angels in America flap ''. Charlotte Creative Loafing. Retrieved 6 December 2011. Jump up ^ `` A Question of Morality : Artists ' Values and Public Funding for the Arts ''. Public Administration Review. 65 ( 1 ) : 8 -- 17. 2005. doi : 10.2307 / 3542577 ( inactive 2017 - 08 - 18 ). JSTOR 3542577. Jump up ^ Sack, Kevin ( 22 March 1996 ). `` Play Displays a Growing City 's Cultural Tensions ''. New York Times. Retrieved 6 December 2011. Jump up ^ Dobrzynsky, Judith H. ( 14 August 1997 ). `` Across U.S., Brush Fires Over Money for the Arts ''. New York Times. Retrieved 6 December 2011. Jump up ^ `` County Strikes At Arts Council Over Gay Play ''. New York Times. 3 April 1997. Retrieved 6 December 2011. ^ Jump up to : `` Fund For New American Plays '' Archived January 14, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. Kennedy Center, accessed April 25, 2011 Jump up ^ `` Pulitzer Prize, Drama '' pulitzer.org, accessed April 25, 2011 Jump up ^ McPhee, Ryan. `` ' Harry Potter and the Cursed Child ', ' My Fair Lady ' Win Big at 2018 Outer Critics Circle Awards '' Playbill, May 7, 2018 External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Angels in America : Millennium Approaches. Angels in America : Millennium Approaches at the Internet Broadway Database Angels in America : Perestroika at the Internet Broadway Database Angels in America on IMDb Awards for Angels in America Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play The Way of the World / Thieves ' Carnival / Twelfth Night / The Merchant of Venice / The White Devil ( 1955 ) The Iceman Cometh ( 1956 ) No Award ( 1957 -- 1974 ) Same Time, Next Year / Equus ( 1975 ) Streamers ( 1976 ) A Texas Trilogy / Otherwise Engaged ( 1977 ) Da ( 1978 ) The Elephant Man ( 1979 ) Children of a Lesser God ( 1980 ) Amadeus ( 1981 ) `` Master Harold ''... and the Boys ( 1982 ) Torch Song Trilogy ( 1983 ) The Real Thing ( 1984 ) As Is ( 1985 ) A Lie of the Mind ( 1986 ) Fences ( 1987 ) M. Butterfly ( 1988 ) The Heidi Chronicles ( 1989 ) The Piano Lesson ( 1990 ) Lost in Yonkers ( 1991 ) Marvin 's Room ( 1992 ) Angels in America : Millennium Approaches ( 1993 ) Angels in America : Perestroika ( 1994 ) Love ! Valour ! Compassion ! ( 1995 ) Master Class ( 1996 ) How I Learned to Drive ( 1997 ) The Beauty Queen of Leenane ( 1998 ) Wit ( 1999 ) Copenhagen ( 2000 ) Proof ( 2001 ) The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia ? / Metamorphoses ( 2002 ) Take Me Out ( 2003 ) I Am My Own Wife ( 2004 ) Doubt : A Parable ( 2005 ) The History Boys ( 2006 ) The Coast of Utopia ( 2007 ) August : Osage County ( 2008 ) Ruined ( 2009 ) Red ( 2010 ) War Horse ( 2011 ) Tribes ( 2012 ) Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike ( 2013 ) All the Way ( 2014 ) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Time ( 2015 ) The Humans ( 2016 ) Oslo ( 2017 ) Helpmann Award for Best Play Life After George ( 2001 ) Cloudstreet ( 2002 ) Copenhagen ( 2003 ) Inheritance ( 2004 ) The Sapphires ( 2005 ) Stuff Happens ( 2006 ) The Lost Echo ( 2007 ) Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? ( 2008 ) War of the Roses ( 2009 ) Richard III ( 2010 ) The Wild Duck ( 2011 ) Ganesh Versus the Third Reich ( 2012 ) The Secret River ( 2013 ) Angels in America ( 2014 ) The Glass Menagerie ( 2015 ) The Bleeding Tree ( 2016 ) The Drover 's Wife ( 2017 ) Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival 1991 - 2000 Pericles ( 1991 ) Hedda Gabler ( 1992 ) An Inspector Calls ( 1993 ) Machinal ( 1994 ) As You Like It ( 1995 ) 2001 - present Twelfth Night / Uncle Vanya ( 2003 ) Mourning Becomes Electra ( 2004 ) Hamlet ( 2005 ) Hedda Gabler ( 2006 ) The Crucible ( 2007 ) Saint Joan ( 2008 ) The Histories ( 2009 ) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( 2010 ) After the Dance ( 2011 ) Anna Christie ( 2012 ) Long Day 's Journey into Night ( 2013 ) Ghosts ( 2014 ) A View from the Bridge ( 2015 ) Ma Rainey 's Black Bottom ( 2016 ) Yerma ( 2017 ) Angels in America ( 2018 ) Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1918 -- 1950 Why Marry ? ( 1918 ) Beyond the Horizon ( 1920 ) Miss Lulu Bett ( 1921 ) Anna Christie ( 1922 ) Icebound ( 1923 ) Hell - Bent Fer Heaven ( 1924 ) They Knew What They Wanted ( 1925 ) Craig 's Wife ( 1926 ) In Abraham 's Bosom ( 1927 ) Strange Interlude ( 1928 ) Street Scene ( 1929 ) The Green Pastures ( 1930 ) Alison 's House ( 1931 ) Of Thee I Sing ( 1932 ) Both Your Houses ( 1933 ) Men in White ( 1934 ) The Old Maid ( 1935 ) Idiot 's Delight ( 1936 ) You Ca n't Take It with You ( 1937 ) Our Town ( 1938 ) Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( 1939 ) The Time of Your Life ( 1940 ) There Shall Be No Night ( 1941 ) The Skin of Our Teeth ( 1943 ) Harvey ( 1945 ) State of the Union ( 1946 ) A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1948 ) Death of a Salesman ( 1949 ) South Pacific ( 1950 ) 1951 -- 1975 The Shrike ( 1952 ) Picnic ( 1953 ) The Teahouse of the August Moon ( 1954 ) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( 1955 ) The Diary of Anne Frank ( 1956 ) Long Day 's Journey into Night ( 1957 ) Look Homeward, Angel ( 1958 ) J.B. ( 1959 ) Fiorello ! ( 1960 ) All the Way Home ( 1961 ) How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ( 1962 ) The Subject Was Roses ( 1965 ) A Delicate Balance ( 1967 ) The Great White Hope ( 1969 ) No Place to be Somebody ( 1970 ) The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man - in - the - Moon Marigolds ( 1971 ) That Championship Season ( 1973 ) Seascape ( 1975 ) 1976 -- 2000 A Chorus Line ( 1976 ) The Shadow Box ( 1977 ) The Gin Game ( 1978 ) Buried Child ( 1979 ) Talley 's Folly ( 1980 ) Crimes of the Heart ( 1981 ) A Soldier 's Play ( 1982 ) ' night, Mother ( 1983 ) Glengarry Glen Ross ( 1984 ) Sunday in the Park with George ( 1985 ) Fences ( 1987 ) Driving Miss Daisy ( 1988 ) The Heidi Chronicles ( 1989 ) The Piano Lesson ( 1990 ) Lost in Yonkers ( 1991 ) The Kentucky Cycle ( 1992 ) Angels in America : Millennium Approaches ( 1993 ) Three Tall Women ( 1994 ) The Young Man from Atlanta ( 1995 ) Rent ( 1996 ) How I Learned to Drive ( 1998 ) Wit ( 1999 ) Dinner with Friends ( 2000 ) 2001 -- present Proof ( 2001 ) Topdog / Underdog ( 2002 ) Anna in the Tropics ( 2003 ) I Am My Own Wife ( 2004 ) Doubt : A Parable ( 2005 ) Rabbit Hole ( 2007 ) August : Osage County ( 2008 ) Ruined ( 2009 ) Next to Normal ( 2010 ) Clybourne Park ( 2011 ) Water by the Spoonful ( 2012 ) Disgraced ( 2013 ) The Flick ( 2014 ) Between Riverside and Crazy ( 2015 ) Hamilton ( 2016 ) Sweat ( 2017 ) Cost of Living ( 2018 ) Tony Award for Best Play 1948 - 1975 Mister Roberts ( 1948 ) Death of a Salesman ( 1949 ) The Cocktail Party ( 1950 ) The Rose Tattoo ( 1951 ) The Fourposter ( 1952 ) The Crucible ( 1953 ) The Teahouse of the August Moon ( 1954 ) The Desperate Hours ( 1955 ) The Diary of Anne Frank ( 1956 ) Long Day 's Journey into Night ( 1957 ) Sunrise at Campobello ( 1958 ) J.B. ( 1959 ) The Miracle Worker ( 1960 ) Becket ( 1961 ) A Man for All Seasons ( 1962 ) Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? ( 1963 ) Luther ( 1964 ) The Subject Was Roses ( 1965 ) Marat / Sade ( 1966 ) The Homecoming ( 1967 ) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead ( 1968 ) The Great White Hope ( 1969 ) Borstal Boy ( 1970 ) Sleuth ( 1971 ) Sticks and Bones ( 1972 ) That Championship Season ( 1973 ) The River Niger ( 1974 ) Equus ( 1975 ) 1976 - 2000 Travesties ( 1976 ) The Shadow Box ( 1977 ) Da ( 1978 ) The Elephant Man ( 1979 ) Children of a Lesser God ( 1980 ) Amadeus ( 1981 ) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ( 1982 ) Torch Song Trilogy ( 1983 ) The Real Thing ( 1984 ) Biloxi Blues ( 1985 ) I 'm Not Rappaport ( 1986 ) Fences ( 1987 ) M. Butterfly ( 1988 ) The Heidi Chronicles ( 1989 ) The Grapes of Wrath ( 1990 ) Lost in Yonkers ( 1991 ) Dancing at Lughnasa ( 1992 ) Angels in America : Millennium Approaches ( 1993 ) Angels in America : Perestroika ( 1994 ) Love ! Valour ! Compassion ! ( 1995 ) Master Class ( 1996 ) The Last Night of Ballyhoo ( 1997 ) ' Art ' ( 1998 ) Side Man ( 1999 ) Copenhagen ( 2000 ) 2001 - present Proof ( 2001 ) The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia ? ( 2002 ) Take Me Out ( 2003 ) I Am My Own Wife ( 2004 ) Doubt : A Parable ( 2005 ) The History Boys ( 2006 ) The Coast of Utopia ( 2007 ) August : Osage County ( 2008 ) God of Carnage ( 2009 ) Red ( 2010 ) War Horse ( 2011 ) Clybourne Park ( 2012 ) Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike ( 2013 ) All the Way ( 2014 ) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Time ( 2015 ) The Humans ( 2016 ) Oslo ( 2017 ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Angels_in_America&oldid=841896387 '' Categories : 1991 plays Broadway plays Drama Desk Award - winning plays Evening Standard Award for Best Play winners HIV / AIDS in literature HIV / AIDS in theatre Cultural depictions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg LGBT - related plays Magic realism plays New York Drama Critics ' Circle Award winners Plays about McCarthyism Plays by Tony Kushner Plays set in New York City Plays set in the 1980s Pulitzer Prize for Drama - winning works Tony Award - winning plays Hidden categories : Webarchive template archiveis links CS1 Italian - language sources ( it ) CS1 Spanish - language sources ( es ) Pages with DOIs inactive since 2017 Webarchive template wayback links Wikipedia semi-protected pages Talk View source Contents About Wikipedia Eesti Español Français Italiano עברית Polski Русский Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски Türkçe 中文 3 more Edit links This page was last edited on 18 May 2018, at 19 : 45. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: angels in america broadway what is it about
Answer: AIDS and homosexuality in America in the 1980s