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Angels In America

By Tony Kushner

October 30 - November 2, 2008

Directed by Steve Shade
Set Design by Snezana Petrovic
Costume Design by Deborah Bradford
Lighting Design by Trevor Norton

Tony Kushner's Angels in America is that rare entity: a work for the stage that is profoundly moving yet very funny, highly theatrical yet steeped in traditional literary values, and most of all deeply American in its attitudes and political concerns.

In two full-length plays--Millennium Approaches and Perestroika--Kushner tells the story of a handful of people trying to make sense of the world. Prior is a man living with AIDS whose lover Louis has left him and become involved with Joe, an ex-Mormon and political conservative whose wife, Harper, is slowly having a nervous breakdown. These stories are contrasted with that of Roy Cohn (a fictional re-creation of the infamous American conservative ideologue who died of AIDS in 1986) and his attempts to remain in the closet while trying to find some sort of personal salvation in his beliefs.

A fully-realized production of the first part of the award-winning play, ANGELS IN AMERICA: Millennium Approaches, directed by Steve Shade, ran Thursday, Oct. 30 - Nov. 1 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 2 at 2 p.m.

An ANGELS IN AMERICA: Perestroika reading directed by Dr. Victoria Lewis was held on Nov. 3 in the Glenn Wallichs Theatre. Cast Production Team

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