Angels In America: Part One: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner

ANGELS IN AMERICA: PART ONE — MILLENNIUM APPROACHES
By Tony Kushner

New York City, 1985. America is in the grip of the AIDS crisis, the Reagan era is at its height, and the world seems to be coming apart.

When Prior Walter reveals to his lover that he has AIDS, their relationship begins to fracture. Across the city, a young Mormon couple struggles with a marriage built on secrets, while the infamous lawyer and political power broker Roy Cohn faces a diagnosis he refuses to name. Their lives collide in unexpected ways as desire, fear, faith, politics, and betrayal propel them toward something none of them can explain.

And then the angels arrive.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play, Tony Kushner’s Angels in America is one of the defining theatrical works of the modern era: an audacious, funny, devastating, and profoundly human epic about what happens when the world you know is ending and you are forced to imagine what might come next.

Spanning bedrooms and hospital rooms, courtrooms and dreams, heaven and earth, Millennium Approaches transforms one of the darkest chapters in American history into a breathtaking theatrical collision of the intimate and the immense.

This summer, The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans takes on its most ambitious production yet.

The Great Work begins.