Later that year the production transferred to Broadway, where it received eleven Tony Award nominations, the most ever received by a play at the time.

In 2017, the play received a much-acclaimed West End revival that won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival in 2018. In the Sunday, June 25, 2006, edition of The Record, in an article headlined “An AIDS anniversary: 25 years in the arts”, Bill Ervolino listed the miniseries among the 12 best filmed portrayals of AIDS to date. In 2003, HBO adapted Angels in America into a six-episode miniseries of the same title. Clum called the play 'a turning point in the history of gay drama, the history of American drama, and of American literary culture'. In 1994, playwright and professor of theater studies John M. The two parts of the play, Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, may be presented separately. Initially and primarily focusing on one gay and one straight couple in Manhattan, the plot has several additional storylines, some of which intersect occasionally. The play contains multiple roles for several actors. Certain major and minor characters are supernatural beings (angels) or deceased persons (ghosts). The play is a complex, often metaphorical, and at times symbolic examination of AIDS and homosexuality in America in the 1980s. Part one of the play premiered in 1991, followed by part two in 1992. The work won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play. New York City, the Kremlin, heaven, and elsewhere, 1986–1990Īngels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a two-part play by American playwright Tony Kushner. New York City, Salt Lake City, and elsewhere, 1985–1986 For the miniseries, see Angels in America (miniseries).

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