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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)I'm standing here because Tony wrote one of the greatest plays of the 20th century, and it is still speaking to us as powerfully as ever in the midst of such political insanity.
In his seven-hour epic, Kushner (husband of EW columnist Mark Harris) grapples with gay identity in the midst of the AIDS crisis and depicts characters both straight and gay, fictional and real (including deeply closeted McCarthyist lawyer Roy Cohn).
Tony Kushner's "gay fantasia," fusing the ambition, morality and underdog sympathies of earlier 20th century masters, felt not only like a great American play but like a culmination and reimagining of great American playness. It slammed a door open. That was 1993. Exactly 25 years later, the first Broadway revival of "Angels in America" started us thinking about what has happened to American plays in the meantime. Have they been as great? Is their greatness different from what it was? Is "greatness" even a meaningful category anymore?
London's National Theatre declared it one of the 10 greatest plays of the century. The literary critic Harold Bloom included it in his Western Canon, one of only a handful of 20th-century plays so honored.
Both parts of Angels, Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, put gay men at the center of American politics, history, and mythology at a time when they were marginalized by the culture at large and dying in waves.
Unity Theatre's brilliant vindication proves that Angels in America was not only the greatest play of the 1980s - it is one of the greatest plays of the last century.
One of the great plays of the 20th century has received a lush, uneven, thought-provoking revival.
This is, to my mind, much more than a nostalgic reexamination of one of the high points of late-20th-century theater;
It now stands as a canonical classic, probably the great American play of the late 20th century.
Unity Theatre's brilliant vindication proves that Angels in America was not only the greatest play of the 1980s - it is one of the greatest plays of the last century.
Tony Kushner's "gay fantasia," fusing the ambition, morality and underdog sympathies of earlier 20th century masters, felt not only like a great American play but like a culmination and reimagining of great American playness. It slammed a door open. That was 1993. Exactly 25 years later, the first Broadway revival of "Angels in America" started us thinking about what has happened to American plays in the meantime. Have they been as great? Is their greatness different from what it was? Is "greatness" even a meaningful category anymore?
This is, to my mind, much more than a nostalgic reexamination of one of the high points of late-20th-century theater;