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.
All Stories About Angels in America
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.
Eureka Theatre, Birthplace of ‘Angels in America,’ to Fold Its Wings
The historic Bay Area theatre will close after 45 years.
Offscript: Translating ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ With Josette Bushell-Mingo
This week’s guest is English director Josette Bushell-Mingo, who discusses her Swedish production of ‘A Raisin in the Sun.’ Plus, the editors talk #tcg16, the Contemporary American Theatre Festival, and Pokemon Go.
The Angels Decade: 22 Interviews
With an HBO miniseries on the way, voices from inside and outside the theatre world reflect on enduring influence of Kushner’s epic.
Angels Takes Flight as a Film
HBO’s starry miniseries retains the sweep of Kushner’s epic.
No ‘Angels’ on Catholic Campus
Student production of Kushner’s epic finds refuge at Arena Stage.
‘Angels’ Provokes a Legal and Cultural Confrontation
‘Angels’ provokes a legal and cultural confrontation
