Angels in America at Cygnet Theatre

ANGELS IN AMERICABy Tony KushnerDirected by Sean MurrayAmerica in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. Alternately hilarious and heartbreaking, it was awarded two Tony Awards for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.Daring and dazzling! The most ambitious American play of our time. -Newsweek*Explicit sexual situations, nudity and adult languagePerformed in Rotating Rep:Part One: Millennium ApproachesIts 1985. Ronald Reagan has been elected to a second term. New York City is in the clutches of a mysterious plague that people are grasping to understand. Prior, a young man in the trenches of this health crisis, discovers devastating news that his lover, Louis, just cannot accept. Mormon couple Joe and Harper struggle with his identity crisis and her self-medicating Valium habit. Roy Cohn, a notorious lawyer from the McCarthy hearings, is in blustery full-blown denial of his own life-changing predicament.Part Two: PerestroikaPart two begins as Prior, now a reluctant prophet set on a mission by a testy angel, must begin the work of rebuilding a devastated world. Characters, having faced annihilation, must now confront their own stubborn indestructability. Perestroika is a story about locating hope in the midst of chaosLow-priced Previews:Millennium Approaches: March 6-9Perestroika: March 22-24Wednesday, Thursday and Friday @7:00pmSaturday and Sunday @1:00pm and 7:00pmPlease check website for specific datesOUT NIGHT @ CYGNET - MAR 13TH @ 6:00PMTHEATRE ON TAP - MAR 15TH @ 6:00PMFRIDAY FORUM - MAR 15TH @ 7:00PMDESIGNER SHOWCASE - MAR 26TH @ 6:30PMPRE SHOW STAGE CHAT - MAR 27TH @ 6:30PMPRE SHOW STAGE CHAT - MAR 29TH @ 6:30PMPRE SHOW STAGE CHAT - APR 3RD @ 6:30PMWINE NIGHT - APR 4TH @ 6:00PMPRE SHOW STAGE CHAT - APR 5TH @ 6:30PM