When Angels in America returns to Broadway on Friday, in a production starring Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane, it will encounter a very different world from the one in which the play debuted around 25 years ago. In the intervening years, HIV and AIDS — the crisis around which so much of the Tony Kushner epic revolves — ceased to be the “death sentence” they once were, and the LGBTQ community won major political victories across the United States and elsewhere.
How Angels In America First Reminded The World That ‘plays Can Matter’
Lily Rothman, Time: Entertainment
Fri, 02/23/2018 - 7:30am
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