Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches

Don’t be fooled by any notion that Tony Kushner’s revival is somehow dated or that its themes have lost their potency. “Now that the AIDS crisis has receded and gay civil rights have become standard in rich Western countries, a seven-hour play about gay life in Ronald Reagan’s America might risk looking anachronistic. But many subplots of Mr. Kushner’s kaleidoscopic work, from performative, vulnerable masculinity to conflicts within the progressive movement, are still fresh today.” (From The Economist, 2017).