Angels in America play by Kushner Actions Share Share Share to social media Facebook X URL https://www.britannica.com/topic/Angels-in-America-play-by-Kushner Share Share Share to social media Facebook X URL https://www.britannica.com/topic/Angels-in-America-play-by-Kushner Also known as: “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes” Written by Jordana Rosenfeld Jordana Rosenfeld is a copy editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica. Jordana Rosenfeld Fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Last Updated: Jul 19, 2024 • Article History Table of Contents In full: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (Show more) Awards And Honors: Tony Awards Pulitzer Prize (1993) (Show more) Widely considered to be the definitive work about the AIDS epidemic, Angels in America is a two-part, roughly eight-hour play by American playwright Tony Kushner that premiered in the early 1990s. It was originally produced as two stand-alone works that opened on Broadway in 1993 six months apart following a successful run in London. The play follows the intersecting lives of a group of people living in New York City in 1985. Kushner has said that the idea for the play came to him in a dream in late 1985 after the death of the first person he knew personally ...(100 of 1413 words)

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