Project 2 Angels in America Reviews

1 London Review

Fall of the Angels
By: Nicholas De Jongh June 27, 2007

"Kushner regards the American Aids tragedy as symptomatic of a country lost to democracy, riddled with corruption and greed, spiritually and morally deficient, virulently homophobic."

De Jongh's review of Angels in America, is a review mostly bases on how the show is out of date with people today. It doesn't talk about the main characters, only what he thought about the writing of the show. He mentions how he views the show in the eyes of today and how he never mentioned what Ronald Reagan did during the Aids epidemic.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/show-23369587-details/Angels+In+America:+Part+1+&+2/showReview.do?reviewId=23402058

2. Broadway Review

Angels in America - Walter Kerr Theatre - Theatre Reviews
By: Gerald Weales July 16, 1993

"I think that whether or not one believes one's work will change the world, one should always work as though one would hope that his or her work changes the world," Kushner told an interviewer in Columbia ,(Spring 1993).

He mainly talks about what is going on through out the play. He also likes to include what answers he wanted to have answered through out the play. In the review it talks about only 6 characters and really only goes into detail about 3 of them. The review gives very little information of the play but more about Tony Kushner, the playwright.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1252/is_n13_v120/ai_14059934



3. Non-NYC-Based Production

Angels in America
Lyric Hammersmith London
Michael Billington June 28, 2007

"But that is characteristic of a play in which woe is always leavened by wit and which sends you out believing that even the most flawed political systems are still humanly perfectible."

Billington's review is a very vague overview of the show. He only introduces the main characters
through out the review and only gives a tiny bit of information on them. There is not an emphasis on the play it self but more of an overview of the characters.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2007/jun/28/theatre


4. College Theatre Review

K-College theatre hits most notes of 'Angels in America' just right
By: Mark Wedel May 16, 2008

"The characters dance a tango of shame and denial, but work towards what "ex-drag queen" Belize (Dwight Trice) calls, "softness, compliance, forgiveness, grace.""

The review is a short review of a play that last about three hours long. He talks about the major characters of the show and gives a little bit of back story to the characters. It mentions some about the set and props. Also, at the beginning of the review he mentions the themes that would be going through out the play.

http://blog.mlive.com/kzgazette/2008/05/kcollege_theater_hits_most_not.html


5. HBO Mini Series Review

Winged Victory
Ten years after making Broadway history, Tony Kushner’s immensely moving epic-cum-fantasia about life in the age of AIDS, comes to HBO.
By John Leonard Published Dec 1, 2003

"If Angels valorizes gay men who decided not to die secret deaths anymore in the Ronald Reagan plague years, it is as well an exalted dialectic of longing and dreaming, of the past we can’t get back to and the future we can’t see"

The review is about the play Angels in America, and introducing the main characters through out the show. The first two paragraphs explain the expectation that is being held by the audience because it was broke up into two part movie. He introduces the main characters and gives a back story to them. He also mentions the main points through out the movie.

http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/tv/reviews/n_9578/