Angels In America at Players by the Sea

Honored with every possible award, including the Pulitzer, Tony for Best Play, Emmy for Best Miniseries and many more. What the playwright called “a gay fantasia on national themes” is nothing less than a powerful and deeply moving exploration of American identity. A straight-arrow
Mormon lawyer hides his true sexuality. His depressed wife escapes through drug-induced fantasies. Ruthless powerbroker Roy Cohn denies that he is gay (“Homosexuals are men who know nobody and who nobody knows. Who have zero clout. Does this sound like me?”) A man dying of AIDS is visited by the ghosts of illustrious ancestors and by his nurse, a black drag queen. Guilt, compassion, right-wing conservatism and intimations of liberation, heralded by a terrifying angel, are all part of this magnificent study of the American state of mind at the millennium.