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Angels in America
A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

by Tony Kushner
London: Nick Hein, 1992
 

Genre:  Drama
Annotations:
Part 1. Millennium approaches -- Part 2. Perestroika

Angels in American is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, two Drama Desk Awards, the Evening Standard Award, two Olivier Award Nominations, the New York Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, and the LAMBDA Literary Award for Drama. In late 1998, London's National Theatre selected Angels in America as one of the ten best plays of the 20th Century. It has been adapted to a 6 hour miniseries by HBO.

Kushner's work is broadly appreciated in theatrical circles but is generally condemned by mainstream Latter-day Saints because of its sexual and pornographic content, its simplistic and biased cariacatures of Mormons, and its profane and sensationalistic treatment of things holy to the Latter-day Saint faith.

HBLL Call No: PS 3561 .U778 A85 1993

Adapted To:
Angels in America Writer Tony Kushner,Directed by Mike Nichols,Produced by Celia Costas,Cinematographer Stephen Goldblatt,Film Editor John Bloom, Antonia Van Drimmelen,Music Composed by Thomas Newman
Film

Reviewed In:
Mormon Angels in America by David Pace
Heaven Sent: Will Tony Kushner's Angels in America rescue Broadway? by Bob Ickes
Winged Defeat by Walter Olson
From Schnitzler to Kushner by Edward Norden
Ambivalence, Utopia, and a Queer Sort of Materialism: How Angels in America Reconstructs the Nation by David Savran
Approaching the Millennium: Essays on Angels in America Edited by Deborah R. Geis, Steven F. Kruger
Theology for the Approaching Millennium: Angels in America, Activism, and the American Religion by Michael Austin
Sea-Changed Iconography: Tony Kushner's Use and Abuse of Mormon Images and Traditions in Angels in America by Sandra Ballif Straubhaar
Casserole Myth: Religious Motif and Inclusivity in Angels in America by John-Charles Duffy
Through a Glass Darkly: Mormon as Perceived by Critics' Reviews of Tony Kushner's Angels in America by Daniel Stout, Joseph D. Straubhaar, Gail Andersen Newbold
"Angels" in Utah: At Salt Lake Acting Company, Kushner's Mormon Characters Have Special Resonance by David Pace






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