![]() One of them, Ben Brantley of the New York Times, observes with only minor exaggeration that “ Angels brought theater back into the national conversation.” So it did, if only for a time. The inception and reception of Angels have been chronicled in The World Only Spins Forward, a book-length oral history compiled by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois.* Based on interviews with 250 people who took part in or saw its early productions, it documents the impact that Angels had on its first viewers. Now it has returned to Broadway in a production from the National Theatre in London, where it was greeted with near-universal acclaim, much of it from critics who were not yet born when the real-life events depicted by Kushner took place. Taken together, the two parts of Angels in America-running seven-and-a-half hours in all-were widely thought to constitute the most important American play of the late 20th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It brought Kushner a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony, and that Tony was followed by another when its second half, Angels in America: Perestroika, opened six months later. When Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: Millennium Approaches opened on Broadway a quarter-century ago, it became the most talked-about theatrical event of its day. ![]()
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