Angels in America has received what can only be described as extraordinary critical and audience acclaim.It received back-to-back Tony Awards for Best Play of the Year on Broadway, a Pulitzer Prize in 1993, and a host of other awards.Millennium Approaches, the first of the two Angels in America plays, provides a portrait of life in the United States in the midst of the Reagan presidency-a highly charged transitional period in the view of the playwright.The lives of one gay couple and one married couple intersect with each other and with the world of political powerbroker Roy Cohn.Millennium Approaches asks astounding and moving questions about the state of the American experiment.What claim can we make to humanity in a nation racially, politically, morally, and sexually divided?Can we embrace change before it is too late?Can we make room at the table for everyone?Is America plummeting toward apocalypse or a brighter new tomorrow?Time Magazine’s critic called the play “inspired”, New York Times writer Anna Quindlen described it as “a brilliant, brilliant play about love and the human condition at a time when our understanding of what it means to be human and loving has, thankfully, expanded,” and Frank Rich, also writing in the New York Times, noted that Kushner “has written the most thrilling American play in years.”New Yorker critic John Lahr has written that Angels is “a victory for Kushner, the theatre, for the transforming power of the imagination to turn devastation into beauty.”
This page is part of an ongoing project to document the history of the theatre productions performed at Wabash College. If you have information not included on this page, please contact the Theater Department or Professor Dwight Watson (watsond@wabash.edu).
