A Troupe That Turns Tropes Into Takeoffs
The 1491s have gone from YouTube videos to live sketch comedy to a major play commission, and they’re laughing all the way.
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A List of Native Theatres and Theatremakers
Resources, institutions, and more than 100 artists spanning North America.
A Meeting of Two Worlds in New Mexico
A fledgling theatre company in the Land of Enchantment tells Native American stories with both authenticity and imagination.
Places We Never Dreamed We’d Go
What do we owe to this quarter-century-old American classic? More life.
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.
