Angels in America

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a play in two parts by American playwright Tony Kushner. It has been made into a television miniseries and an opera. The play is written for eight actors to perform, with all of them playing two or more roles.

Awards and critical reception

Millennium Approaches

• 1990 Fund for New American Plays/Kennedy Centre Award
• 1991 Bay Area Drama Critics Award for Best Play
• 1991 National Arts Club's Joseph Kesselring Award
• 1992 London Evening Standard Award for Best New Play
• 1992 London Drama Critics Circle Award for Best New Play
• 1993 Drama Desk award for Best Play
• 1993 New York Drama Critics Circle award for Best Play
• 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
• 1993 Tony award for Best Play

Perestroika

• 1992 Fund for New American Plays/Kennedy Centre Award
• 1992 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best New Play

The play merited inclusion as the very last item in Harold Bloom's controversial list of what he considered to be the most important works of literature, The Western Canon (1994).

Related Topics:
Harold Bloom - 1994

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