Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

Revised and Complete Edition

    • 4.3 • 44 Ratings
    • $9.99
    • $9.99

Publisher Description

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes includes Part One, Millennium Approaches and Part Two, Perestroika


“Glorious. A monumental, subversive, altogether remarkable masterwork…Details of specific catastrophes may have changed since this Reagan-era AIDS epic won the Pulitzer and the Tony, but the real cosmic and human obsessions—power, religion, sex, responsibility, the future of the world—are as perilous, yet as falling-down funny, as ever.” –Linda Winer, Newsday

"A vast, miraculous play... provocative, witty and deeply upsetting... a searching and radical rethinking of American political drama." - Frank Rich, New York Times

"A victory for theater, for the transforming power of the imagination to turn devastation into beauty." - John Lahr, New Yorker

“An enormously impressive work of the imagination and intellect, a towering example of what theater stretched to its full potential can achieve.” -Philadelphia Inquirer

"Angels in America is the finest drama of our time, speaking to us of an entire era of life and death as no other play within memory. It ranks as nothing less than one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century." - John Heilpern, New York Observer

“Some playwrights want to change the world. Some want to revolutionize theater. Tony Kushner is that rarity of rarities: a writer who has the promise to do both.” -New York Times

This new edition of Tony Kushner's masterpiece is published with the author's recent changes and a new introduction in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of its original production. One of the most honored American plays in history, Angels in America was awarded two Tony Awards for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was made into an Emmy Award-winning HBO film directed by Mike Nichols. This two-part epic, subtitled "A Gay Fantasia on National Themes," has received hundreds of performances worldwide in more than twenty-six languages.

Tony Kushner’s plays include Angels in America; Hydriotaphia, or the Death of Dr. Brown; The Illusion, adapted from the play by Pierre Cornelle; Slavs!; A Bright Room Called Day; Homebody/Kabul; Caroline, or Change, a musical with composer Jeanine Tesori; and The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures. He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols’s film of Angels in America and for Steven Spielberg’s Munich and Lincoln. His books include The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the Present; Brundibar, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak; and Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, co-edited with Alisa Solomon.
Among many honors, Kushner is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, two Evening Standard Awards, an Olivier Award, an Emmy Award, two Oscar nominations, and the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2012, he was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama. He lives in Manhattan with his husband, Mark Harris.

GENRE
Arts & Entertainment
RELEASED
2014
January 16
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
Theatre Communications Group
SELLER
Perseus Books, LLC
SIZE
1.4
MB

Customer Reviews

NYChusbands ,

One of the greats

This play still holds up 25 years later.

More Books Like This

Five One Act Plays Five One Act Plays
2012
The Penguin Arthur Miller The Penguin Arthur Miller
2015
Shorter, Faster, Funnier Shorter, Faster, Funnier
2011
Plays for Two Plays for Two
2014
Crumbs from the Table of Joy and Other Plays Crumbs from the Table of Joy and Other Plays
2003
The Language Archive and Other Plays The Language Archive and Other Plays
2020

More Books by Tony Kushner

A Bright Room Called Day A Bright Room Called Day
1994
Homebody/Kabul Homebody/Kabul
2005
Caroline, or Change Caroline, or Change
2004
Lincoln Lincoln
2013
Queer and Loathing Queer and Loathing
1994
The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures
2023

Customers Also Bought

Topdog/Underdog (TCG Edition) Topdog/Underdog (TCG Edition)
2001
Burning Vision Burning Vision
2003
Sweat (TCG Edition) Sweat (TCG Edition)
2017
Long Day's Journey into Night Long Day's Journey into Night
2002
Anna in the Tropics (TCG Edition) Anna in the Tropics (TCG Edition)
2003
Water by the Spoonful (Revised TCG Edition) Water by the Spoonful (Revised TCG Edition)
2017