Photo FeaturesLook Back at Angels in America on Broadway in Honor of Tony KushnerThe Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright celebrates his birthday July 16.
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Marc J. Franklin
July 16, 2021
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Tony Award winner Tony Kushner celebrates his birthday July 16.
Kushner is perhaps best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Millennium Approaches, the first part of the two-play epic, directed by George C. Wolfe, opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr May 4, 1993. Starring Joe Mantello, Stpehen Spinella, and more, the drama was nominated for nine Tony Awards, winning four, including Best Play.
In fall 1993, Angels in America: Perestroika joined Millennium Approaches at the Walter Kerr, where the two halves played in repertory. After opening November 23, 1993, Perestroika would go on to earn six Tony Award nominations, winning three, including Best Play.
Set in 1980s New York City, Angels in America tells the stories of a gay man who is abandoned by his lover when he contracts the AIDS virus, and a closeted Mormon lawyer, whose marriage to his pill-popping wife stalls. Other characters include the infamous McCarthy-ite lawyer Roy Cohn, Ethel Rosenberg, a former drag queen who works as a nurse, and an angel.
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Look Back at Angels In America on Broadway in Honor of Tony Kushner
Look Back at Angels In America on Broadway in Honor of Tony Kushner
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Stephen Spinella and Joe Mantello in Angels in America
Joe Mantello and Stephen Spinella in Angels In America
David Marshall Grant, Stephen Spinella, and Jeffrey Wright in Angels In America
Marcia Gay Harden in Angels In America
Ron Leibman in Angels In America
Ron Leibman in Angels in America
David Marshall Grant and Ron Leibman in Angels In America
Marcia Gay Harden and Stephen Spinella in Angels In America
Marcia Gay Harden and Jeffrey Wright in Angels In America
Kathleen Chalfant and Ron Leibman in Angels In America
Stephen Spinella and Joe Mantello in Angels in America
Ellen McLaughlin and Stephen Spinella in Angels in America
Ellen McLaughlin and Stephen Spinella in Angels in America
Stephen Spinella and Ellen McLaughlin in Angels In America
Denise Gough and Lee Pace
Nathan Lane and Susan Brown
Denise Gough and Nathan-Stewart Jarrett
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and Denise Gough
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James McArdle and Andrew Garfield
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James McArdle and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
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Lee Pace
Denise Gough and Lee Pace
Andrew Garfield and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
Lee Pace, Andrew Garfield, and Nathan Lane
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Andrew Garfield
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Beth Malone and Andrew Garfield
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Denise Gough
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Susan Brown
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James McArdle
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Nathan Lane
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James McArdle and Lee Pace
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James McArdle, Susan Brown, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, and Andrew Garfield
The gay fantasia returned to Broadway 25 years later, opening at the Neil Simon Theatre March 25, 2018, in a Marianne Elliott helmed-production. The revival, starring Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, Lee Pace, and more, earned 11 Tony Award nominations, winning three, including Best Revival.
Broadway stars Frankie Grande, J. Harrison Ghee, Antwayn Hopper, and more marched with Playbill, Jeep, and the Times Square Alliance at the 2022 NYC Pride March.