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Angels in America: Perestroika by Tony Kushner

March 3, 2026 by esmemoria Leave a Comment

The Great Question before us is: Are we doomed? The Great Question before us is: Will the Past release us? The Great Question before us is: Can we Change? In Time?” In my review of the first play in Tony Kushner’s the Angels in America duology, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, we left the characters after the angel has burst down through Prior’s ceiling and hovers above him proclaiming, “The Messenger has arrived.” We start Angels in America: Perestroika with an old, blind Russian man […]

Threshold of Revelation

Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner

March 1, 2026 by esmemoria Leave a Comment

I was lucky enough to see Tony Kushner’s play Angels in America: Millennium Approaches on Broadway a long time ago. Reading the script now all these years later, I am surprised to find the written script gave me the shivers just like the live play did. Maybe because I have memories of the experience and have projected them onto the words. But there is no doubt that the play in all its forms is powerful. The subtitle of the play is “A Gay Fantasia on […]

A gay fantasia, indeed.

February 16, 2015 by bonnie 1 Comment

Two or three years ago, The Chancellor showed me the HBO film Angels in America, and I was intrigued, saddened, and deeply moved all at once. And then PBS aired a special of the UK’s National Theatre performances, which included a scene of Dominic Cooper and Andrew Scott (Moriarty!) performing a scene from the play. The special made me really curious about all the contemporary American and British plays out there–we’ve all read Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neill and Tom Stoppard, so I thought it […]

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