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Angels in America: Millennium Approaches

Angels in America: Millennium Approaches

by Tony Kushner

Award-Winning
Critically-Acclaimed
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LGBTQ-Related
Small Cast (1-8)

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Angels in America: Millennium Approaches

Angels in America: Millennium Approaches





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.


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Fun Fact

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.

Playwright

Playwright
Tony Kushner



Broadway Premiere

Theatre
Walter Kerr Theatre
Opening Night
May 4, 1993
Total Performances
367
Original Cast
Kathleen Chalfant, David Marshall Grant, Marcia Gay Harden, Ron Leibman, Joe Mantello, Ellen McLaughlin, Stephen Spinella, Jeffrey Wright
Director
George C. Wolfe
Scenic Design
Robin Wagner
Costume Design
Toni-Leslie James
Lighting Design
Jules Fisher
Sound Design
Scott Lehrer

2018 Broadway Revival

Theatre
Neil Simon Theatre
Opening Night
Mar 25, 2018
Total Performances
57
Original Cast
Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, Susan Brown, Denise Gough, Amanda Lawrence, Beth Malone, James McArdle, Lee Pace, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Rowan Ian Seamus Magee, Matty Oaks, Jane Pfitsch, Ron Todorowski, Silvia Vrskova, Lucy York
Director
Marianne Elliott
Producer
Tim Levy, NT America, Jordan Roth, Rufus Norris & Lisa Burger, The Royal National Theatre, Elliot & Harper Productions, Kash Bennett, NT Productions, Aged In Wood, The Baruch-Viertel-Routh-Frankel Group, Jane Bergère, Adam Blanshay Productions, CatWenJam Productions, Jean Doumanian, Gilad-Rogowsky, Gold-Ross Productions, The John Gore Organization, Grove Entertainment, Harris Rubin Productions, Hornos-Moellenberg, Brian & Dayna Lee, Benjamin Lowy, Stephanie P. McClelland, David Mirvish, Mark Pigott, Jon B. Platt, E. Price-LD ENT., Daryl Roth, Catherine Schreiber, Barbara Whitman, Jujamcyn Theaters (Jordan Roth: President; Rocco Landesman: President Emeritus; Paul Libin: Executive Vice President Emeritus; Jack Viertel: Senior Vice President), The Nederlander Organization (James L. Nederlander: President) and The Shubert Organization (Philip J. Smith: Chairman; Robert E. Wankel: President)
Scenic Design
Ian MacNeil;
Costume Design
Nicky Gillibrand
Lighting Design
Paule Constable
Sound Design
Ian Dickinson and Autograph
Music
Adrian Sutton

2003 Film Version

Movie Name
Angels in America
Type
Made for TV Movie
Director
Mike Nichols
Screenplay
Tony Kushner
Starring
Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson



Books

Script
Play Script

Script
Play Script (Combined Millennium Approaches & Perestroika 2018 Version)


CDs

CD
Audiobook Performance from the 2018 Cast


Videos

DVD
HBO Miniseries DVD


Merchandise

Merchandise




1993 Pulitzer Prize Nominations

Pulitzer Prize for Drama

1993 Tony Award Nominations

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

1993 Drama Desk Award Nominations

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

2018 Tony Award Nominations

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

2018 Drama Desk Award Nominations

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


2018 Outer Critics Circle Award Nominations

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)

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