Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches

DATES May 1 - May 26

RUN TIME approximately 3hrs and 30min including intermissions

PRICE $20 - $67

PLAYWRIGHT Tony Kushner

DIRECTOR Keith Powell Beyland & Peter Brown

Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches

Louis abandons his lover. Prior becomes a prophet. Harper visits Antarctica. Joe questions his Mormon faith. Belize offers kindness and care to an unlikely patient. Six New Yorkers’ lives intertwine at the height of the AIDS crisis. Confronting politics, spirituality, and sexuality with sharp humor and a sage observational eye, this great American epic shows us how community and connection can be forged in even the darkest of times.

Please Note Peformance Times: All Evenings at 7:00pm and all Matinees at 2:00pm.

Special Dates
  • Industry Night
    Wed, May 8, 7:00pm
Pay-What-You-Can
  • Wed, May 1, 7:00pm
  • Wed, May 8, 7:00pm
  • Thu, May 16, 2:00pm
On sale 12pm, day of show, in person.
Discussions
  • Artistic Perspective
    Sun, May 5, post show
  • Curtain Call
    Sun, May 12, post show

Born in New York City in 1956, and raised in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Tony Kushner is best known for his two-part epic, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. His other plays include A Bright Room Called Day, Slavs!, Hydrotaphia, Homebody/Kabul, and Caroline, Or Change, the musical for which he wrote book and lyrics, with music by composer Jeanine Tesori. Kushner has translated and adapted Pierre Corneille’s The Illusion, S.Y. Ansky’s The Dybbuk, Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person of Sezuan and Mother Courage and her Children, and the English-language libretto for the children’s opera Brundibár by Hans Krasa. He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols’ film of Angels in America and Steven Spielberg’s Munich. In 2012 he wrote the screenplay for Spielberg’s movie Lincoln. His books include But the Giraffe: A Curtain Raising and Brundibar: The Libretto, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak; The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the Present; and Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict, co-edited with Alisa Solomon. His recent work includes a collection of one-act plays entitled Tiny Kushner, and The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures. Kushner is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an Emmy Award, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, an Arts Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a PEN/Laura Pels Award, a Spirit of Justice Award from the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, a Cultural Achievement Award from The National Foundation for Jewish Culture, a Chicago Tribune Literary Prize for lifetime achievement, and the 2012 National Medal of Arts, among many others. In September 2008, Tony Kushner became the first recipient of the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, the largest theater award in the US. He is the subject of a documentary film, Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner, made by the Oscar-winning filmmaker Freida Lee Mock. He lives in Manhattan with his husband, Mark Harris.

Prior Robbie Harrison

Louis Nate Stephenson

Belize Ashanti Dwight Williams

Joseph Joseph Bearor

Harper Michela Micalizio

Hannah Denise Poirier

Roy Paul Haley

The Angel Casey Turner

Co-Director Keith Powell Beyland

Co-Director Peter Brown

Scenic Designer Anita Stewart **

Costume Designer Emily White

Lighting Designer Seif Salatto-Cristobal

Sound Designer Seth Asa Sengel

Stage Manager Meg Lydon *

Keith Powell Beyland with wife & co-founder of DRC Vanessa Beyland

Peter Brown

Robbie Harrison

Nate Stephenson

Ashanti Dwight Williams

Joseph Bearor

Michela Micalizio

Denise Poirier

Paul Haley

Casey Turner

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