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by Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner’s epic drama of gay life in mid-1980s America
Story:
Joe and Harper Pitt are an attractive young Mormon couple who moved from Utah to Brooklyn for his job as law clerk to a conservative judge. Harper is a Valium addict; Joe is a closeted gay man. Meanwhile, Prior Walter has been diagnosed with AIDS and his longtime lover, Louis Ironson, can’t cope with caring for a gravely ill partner. At St. Vincent’s Hospital, an African American nurse known as Belize (who happens to be Prior’s previous lover) reluctantly cares for notorious lawyer Roy Cohn, an AIDS patient who enters the hospital claiming to be suffering from liver cancer. Cohn receives ghostly visitations from Ethel Rosenberg, the woman he helped send to the electric chair for spying. The final character is an angel who (literally) crashes through Prior’s ceiling during an illness-induced vision.
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.
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Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Best Play Best Actor in a Play - Ron Leibman Best Featured Actor in a Play - Stephen Spinella Best Direction of a Play Best Featured Actor in a Play - Joe Mantello Best Featured Actress in a Play - Kathleen Chalfant Best Featured Actress in a Play - Marcia Gay Harden Best Scenic Design in a Play Best Lighting Design
Best Play Outstanding Actor in a Play - Ron Leibman Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play - Stephen Spinella Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play - Joe Mantello Outstanding Director of a Play Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play - David Marshall Grant Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play - Kathleen Chalfant Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play - Marcia Gay Harden Outstanding Lighting Design
Best Revival of a Play Best Actor in a Play - Andrew Garfield Best Featured Actor in a Play - Nathan Lane Best Featured Actress in a Play - Susan Brown Best Featured Actress in a Play - Denise Gough Best Direction of a Play Best Original Score Best Scenic Design in a Play Best Costume Design in a Play Best Sound Design of a Play Best Lighting Design in a Play
Revival of a Play Outstanding Actor in a Play - Andrew Garfield Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play - Nathan Lane Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play - James McArdle Outstanding Director of a Play Music in a Play Outstanding Puppet Design - Finn Caldwell and Nick Barnes
Outstanding Revival of a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway) Outstanding Actor in a Play Andrew Garfield Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play - Nathan Lane Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play - Denise Gough Outstanding Director of a Play Outstanding Lighting Design (Play or Musical)