5/11/2023 0 Comments Angels in america part one![]() ![]() With its sumptuous costuming (Oana Botez), ritual-inviting set design (Maruti Evans), and multi-layered staging, it is by turns disorienting, devastating, and exhilarating. This production of Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches is a mind-boggling and breathtaking panoramic spectacle, part circus and part nightmare. ![]() Written by one Jewish man (Tony Kushner) and directed by another (János Szász), Arena Stage’s production of the play is concerned with the process of wrestling with what is often called God and how choosing to engage in that wrestling or trying to avoid it affects our covenant with our fellow human beings. The play was an indictment of America’s cruel abandonment of those of its citizens who were affected by the disease AIDS. Angels in America burst onto the theatrical scene and into national consciousness at The Public Theater in 1991 and, two years later, moved to Broadway. ![]()
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