Angels in America, Part One

Millennium Approaches

Tony Kushner First published 1992

About this book

Winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Winner of the 1993 Tony Award for Best Play. 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.

Subjects

  • aids (disease)
  • american drama (dramatic works by one author)
  • angels
  • civilization
  • drama
  • gay men
  • lambda literary awards
  • lambda literary award winner
  • lgbtq hiv/aids
  • lgbtq plays
  • mormons
  • patients