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{{Infobox play | |||
| name = Angels in America: Millennium Approaches | |||
| image = Angels-in-america-04.jpg | |||
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| caption = Image from the HBO production | |||
| writer = [[Tony Kushner]] | |||
| characters = Prior Walter<br>[[Roy Cohn]]<br>Joe Pitt<br>Harper Pitt<br>Hannah Pitt<br>Louis Ironson<br>Belize<br>[[Ethel Rosenberg]]<br>Homeless Woman<br>Angel | |||
| setting = New York City, Salt Lake City and elsewhere, 1985–1986 | |||
| premiere = May 1991 | |||
| place = [[w:Eureka Theatre Company]]<br>San Francisco, California | |||
| orig_lang = English | |||
| genre = Drama | |||
}} | |||
{{Infobox play | |||
| name = Angels in America: Perestroika | |||
| image = | |||
| image_size = | |||
| caption = | |||
| writer = [[Tony Kushner]] | |||
| characters = Prior Walter<br>[[Roy Cohn]]<br>Joe Pitt<br>Harper Pitt<br>Hannah Pitt<br>Louis Ironson<br>Belize<br>[[Ethel Rosenberg]]<br>Homeless Woman<br>Angel | |||
| setting = New York City and elsewhere, 1986–1990 | |||
| premiere = November 8, 1992 | |||
| place = [[w:Mark Taper Forum]]<br>Los Angeles, California | |||
| orig_lang = English | |||
| genre = Drama | |||
}} | |||
'''''Angels in America''''' is a 1991 play in two parts by [[Tony Kushner]] that examines of AIDS and homosexuality in America in the 1980s. | |||
==Factual Information== | ==Factual Information== | ||
According to Jacobus, Kushner was | According to Jacobus, Kushner was surprised that both liberals and conservatives liked the play because Kushner thought that it attacked many of the conservative views (1636). | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
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==Works Cited== | ==Works Cited== | ||
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* Garner, Stanton B. ''"Angels in America: The Millennium and Postmodern Memory," in Approaching the Millenium, Essays on Angels in America,'' edited by Deborah R. Geis and Steven F. Kruger, University of Michigan Press, 1987: pp.173-84. | * Garner, Stanton B. ''"Angels in America: The Millennium and Postmodern Memory," in Approaching the Millenium, Essays on Angels in America,'' edited by Deborah R. Geis and Steven F. Kruger, University of Michigan Press, 1987: pp.173-84. | ||
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* Kruger, Steven F. ''"Identity and Conversion in Angels in America."in Approaching the Millennium: Essays on "Angels in America."'' edited by Deborah R. Geis and Steven F.Kruger, University of Michigan Press, 1997: pp. 151-69. | * Kruger, Steven F. ''"Identity and Conversion in Angels in America."in Approaching the Millennium: Essays on "Angels in America."'' edited by Deborah R. Geis and Steven F.Kruger, University of Michigan Press, 1997: pp. 151-69. | ||
* Kushner, Tony. ''Angels in America''. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1995. | * Kushner, Tony. ''Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes''. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1995. | ||
* Layman, Bruccoli Clark. ''"Tony Kushner,"in Dictionary of Literary Biography,'' Volume 228: Twentienth Century American Dramatists, Second Series. Edited by Christopher J. Wheatley. | * Layman, Bruccoli Clark. ''"Tony Kushner,"in Dictionary of Literary Biography,'' Volume 228: Twentienth Century American Dramatists, Second Series. Edited by Christopher J. Wheatley. | ||
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* Jacobus, Lee A., Ed. ''The Beford Introduction to Drama.'' 3rd Ed. Boston: Bedford, 1997. | * Jacobus, Lee A., Ed. ''The Beford Introduction to Drama.'' 3rd Ed. Boston: Bedford, 1997. | ||
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