Places We Never Dreamed We’d Go
What do we owe to this quarter-century-old American classic? More life.
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History Cracks Open, Again
Tony Taccone, a co-pilot for the first flight of ‘Angels in America,’ brings Kushner’s epic back home to Berkeley.
The Children of ‘Angels’
A generation of playwrights reflects on a play that still sets the bar high for their work.
Lee Pace, Not Your Regular Joe
A role as the gay Mormon lawyer in ‘Angels in America’ on Broadway brings the Texas-born actor back to a play that helped make him an actor.
National Themes: How Britain’s Subsidized Theatre Helped ‘Angels’ Fly
The National Theatre revival, now headed for Broadway, brings an American play’s long London history full circle.
Would ‘Angels’ Get Off the Ground Today?
This epic ‘gay fantasia’ emerged from the recession-wracked regional theatre of the early 1990s, but the field may be even more risk-averse now.
Why I Stopped Teaching ‘Angels’ to Undergrads
It’s not just all the arduous unpacking: AIDS, Reagan, the closet, Mormons. It’s also that the play’s millennial dread seems puzzling to post-millennials.
Is ‘Angels in America’ Tough to Teach? Maybe, But We’re Here to Learn
College students question an editorial in which a university professor lamented the hurdles of teaching Kushner’s gay fantasia.
‘Angels’ in the Details
A massive new oral history recreates the drama behind Kushner’s modern epic, but does it do his ideas justice?
The Better ‘Angels’ of Our Nature
A new Atlanta revival of Kushner’s epic asks the big questions and finds fresh answers.
