Angels in America

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Angels in America is a critically acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Tony Kushner that explores AIDS, politics, and identity in 1980s America through a blend of realism and magical realism.

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author Tony Kushner
awardReceived Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play
Evening Standard Theatre Awards
surface form: Evening Standard Award for Best Play

Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Tony Award for Best Play
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception critically acclaimed
culturalImpact landmark of late 20th-century American theatre
firstPartPremiereLocation Eureka Theatre Company, San Francisco
genre LGBT-related drama
drama
epic theatre
political drama
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literaryForm play in two parts
narrativeTechnique magical realism
realism
notableCharacter Belize
Harper Pitt
Joe Pitt
Louis Ironson
Prior Walter
Roy Cohn
The Angel
notableRevival Broadway revival at the Neil Simon Theatre
National Theatre production, London
originalLanguage English
secondPartPremiereLocation Mark Taper Forum
surface form: Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles
settingPlace New York City
Salt Lake City
settingTime mid-1980s
subject AIDS crisis
American society in the 1980s
Mormonism
Reagan-era politics
homosexuality
identity
religion
theme illness and mortality
migration and change
political power
sexual identity
spirituality

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