Angels in America Part 1: Millennium Approaches | The LCT Leap Theatre

A COMPLEX EXAMINATION OF AIDS AND HOMOSEXUALITY IN AMERICA IN THE 1980S.

In the first part of Tony Kushner’s epic, set in 1980’s New York City, a gay man is abandoned by his lover when he contracts the AIDS virus, and a closeted Mormon lawyer’s marriage to his pill-popping wife stalls. Other characters include the infamous McCarthy-ite lawyer Roy Cohn, Ethel Rosenberg, a former drag queen who works as a nurse, and an angel.