Angels crash through ceilings, Reaganism crumbles, and Andrew Garfield ascends to gay icon status.
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. This new staging of Tony Kushner's multi-award winning two-part play, Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia On National Themes, is directed by Olivier and Tony award winning director Marianne Elliott.
Acting
Garfield's Prior—feral, fragile, unforgettable.
Direction
Elliott's staging makes angels terrifying again.
Production
The split-stage climax still haunts me.
Director
Marianne Elliott
Andrew Garfield
Prior Walter
Nathan Lane
Roy M. Cohn/The Angel Antarctica
Susan Brown
Hannah Pitt/Aleksii/Doctor/Ethel Rosenberg/The Angel Asiatica
Denise Gough
Harper Pitt/The Angel Africanii
Amanda Lawrence
The Angel/Voice Of Orrin/Mormon Centre Mother/Nurse Emily
James McArdle
Louis Ironson/The Angel Australia
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
Belize/Mr. Lies/Voice Of Caleb/The Angel Oceania
Russell Tovey
Joseph Pitt/Mormon Centre Father/The Angel Europa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 2017 revival originally ran simultaneously with Part One, meaning audiences could marathon seven hours of Kushner in one day.
Marianne Elliott's staging notably cast Black actors as the Angel Africanii, directly confronting the original text's racial blind spots—Kushner approved.
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