Synopsis
Angels in America - Part One - Millenium Approaches
Published by Nick Hern Books
5 Male 3 Female
"Daring and dazzling! The most ambitious American play of our time: an epic that ranges from earth to heaven; focuses on politics, sex and religion; transports us to Washington, the Kremlin, the South Bronx, Salt Lake City and Antarctica; deals with Jews, Mormons, WASPs, blacks; switches between realism and fantasy, from the tragedy of AIDS to the camp comedy of drag queens to the death or at least the absconding of God" ~ Kack Kroll, Newsweek
"A vast miraculous play...provocative, witty and deeply upsetting...a searching and radical rethinking of American political drama..." ~ Frank Rich, New York Times
"Something rare, dangerous and harrowing ... a roman candle hurled into a drawing room" ~ Nicholas de Jongh, London Evening Standard
"An epic theatrical fever dream ... a three-hour cliffhanger that leaves you wanting more" ~ Variety
"A victory for theater, for the transforming power of the imagination to turn devastation into beauty" ~ John Lahr, New Yorker
"Establishes Kushner as a poet and moral visionary in love with the theater yet awake in the world" ~ Don Shewey, Village Voice
World premiere: The Eureka Theater Company
Subsequently produced at the Royal National Theater and on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theater.