Angels in America
Gay fantasia play
Angels in America is a two-part play by Tony Kushner, subtitled "A Gay Fantasia on National Themes," first staged in the early 1990s.
The work interweaves AIDS, Mormonism, McCarthyism, and Reagan-era politics through interlocking stories of gay men, their lovers, and Roy Cohn.
It won the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Awards, becoming a landmark of American theater: We saw Angels in America on Broadway.
The title refers to an angel who crashes through a character's ceiling announcing prophetic mission.
- AIDSImmune deficiency syndrome
- ReaganAmerican presidential surname
- Cold WarProlonged East-West standoff
- BroadwayManhattan theatrical district
- MillenniumOne thousand years
Kushner · Mike Nichols · Walter · Louis · Belize · Roy · gay · plague · heaven · Mormon · politics · Meryl · Pacino · HBO · queer · prophecy · drag · hallucination
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Angels in Americanaturalism
Worldview excluding the supernatural
realism · Glengarry Glen Ross · The Iceman Cometh · David Mamet · slice of life
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