Angels in America: Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches (Paperback)

from corinneblackmer

 A play that sets out not merely to ameliorate but to eradicate anti-gay sentiment, Angels in America opens as Louis's Jewish grandmother, who he has refused to visit, has her funeral, presided over by the remarkable Rabbi Issidor Chemelwitz, who takes about her not so much as an individual perso...

from darwin.8u

I loved Angels in America. There is a lot of modern American drama that I believe just doesn't hold up as literature. Kushner, however, belongs in the same pantheon of modern American greats as Pinter and Mamet.

from pzmiller

Tony Kushner's famous two-part play that encompasses a wide swath of America.

from JosephJ

Interesting but very involved play. Much better miniseries with some seriously sick acting on the part of Meryl Streep and Al Pacino.

from mamzel

In the first part of Angels in America, we meet the characters and learn their complicated relationships. The play takes place at the end of 1985 when information of HIV and AIDS was just emerging and there was still a lot of fear and misunderstanding about it. Our characters represent homosexual...