5/21/2023 0 Comments Angels in america part one![]() ![]() Of his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Kushner has said, “it’s a play about a specific historical moment, and what it was like to be alive then, and in other ways, it describes things that are still very much with us.” In producing this play, Arena Stage had an interesting challenge on its hands: how to make such a popular and beloved piece new again and relevant to a contemporary audience, while staying true to the themes and political agenda that Kushner had in mind when writing “Angels” -needless to say, a pretty big ask from any theatrical team. The subtitle, “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes,” pretty much says it all. It’s a broadly panoramic and searing look at a very specific time in American history-the mid 1980s and the beginning of the AIDS crisis in this country. “Angels in America” has been deemed Tony Kushner’s magnum opus. ![]() Nick Westrate (Prior Walter) in “Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches” at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater, running March 24 through April 23. ![]()
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