| LC control no. | no2017028402 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Kushner, Tony. Angels in America |
| Variant(s) | Kushner, Tony. Angels in America: a gay fantasia on national themes |
| See also | Container of (work): Kushner, Tony. Millennium approaches http://rdaregistry.info/Elements/w/P10147 Container of (work): Kushner, Tony. Perestroika http://rdaregistry.info/Elements/w/P10147 Adapted as television program (work): Angels in America (Television program) http://rdaregistry.info/Elements/w/P10085 |
| Other standard no. | 188295362 Q2337685 |
| Form of work | Drama Biographical drama Fantasy drama Ghost plays Gay drama Political plays |
| Beginning date | 1987 1991 |
| Ending date | 1990 1992 |
| Associated place | Millennium approaches San Francisco (Calif.) Perestroika Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Place of origin | New York (N.Y.) United States |
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| Found in | Kushner, Tony. Angels in America : a gay fantasia on national themes, 2013: title page (Part one: Millennium approaches; Part two: Perestroika) title page verso (Angels in America, Part one: Millennium approaches © 1992, 1993, 2013; Angels in America, Part two: Perestroika © 1992, 1994, 1996, 2013) page ix (I began writing these plays--I thought at the time that I was writing a single play--in 1987; I finished the first draft of Millennium approaches in 1988 and the first draft of Perestroika in 1990) Wikipedia, March 5, 2017 (Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a 1993 play in two parts by American playwright Tony Kushner; the two parts of the play are separately presentable and entitled Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, respectively. The play has been made into a television miniseries, and an opera by Peter Eötvös; Millennium Approaches received its world premiere in May 1991 in a production performed by the Eureka Theatre Company of San Francisco; Perestroika received its world premiere in November 1992 in a production by the Mark Taper Forum; the entire two-part play debuted on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in 1993, with Millennium Approaches performed on May 4 and Perestroika joining it in repertory on November 23, closing December 4, 1994; the published script indicates that Kushner made a few revisions to Perestroika in the following year. These changes officially completed the work in 1995; Kushner made additional revisions to Perestroika during a run at the Signature Theatre in 2010; the play is a complex, often metaphorical, and at times symbolic examination of AIDS and homosexuality in America in the 1980s. Certain major and minor characters are supernatural beings (angels) or deceased persons (ghosts)) SparkNotes website, March 5, 2017 (full title: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes; Part One is entitled Millennium Approaches; Part Two is entitled Perestroika; author: Tony Kushner; type of work: Play, in two parts; genre: Political drama (preoccupied with themes of democracy, community and personal responsibility); language: English (although some characters intermittently speak in French); time and place written: Begun in 1989; Part One was first presented in workshop form in 1990 and had its world premiere in 1991, while Part Two was workshopped in 1991 and premiered in 1992, though Kushner continued to tinker with both scripts; written primarily in New York City; date of first publication: 1992) <http://www.sparknotes.com/drama/angels/facts.html> |
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