Angels in America, a Gay Fantasia on National Themes

HBO Films will present Angels in America, directed by Mike Nichols from Tony Kushner’s own adaptation of his Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. The remarkable cast features Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Mary Louise Parker, Jeffrey Wright, Justin Kirk, Ben Shenkman, Patrick Wilson, James Cromwell, Michael Gambon and Simon Callow.Angels in America is one of the most remarkable and celebrated plays of our time. Over 350,000 copies have been sold in paperback since their original publication in 1993.Praise for the play:''Angels in America is the broadest, deepest, most searching American play of our time.''—Jack Kroll, Newsweek''A vast, miraculous play . . . provocative, witty and deeply upsetting . . . a searching and radical rethinking of Ameri-can political drama.''—Frank Rich, The New York Times''Something rare, dangerous and harrowing…a roman candle hurled into a drawing room . . . ''—Nicholas de Jongh, London Evening Standard''Playful and profound, extravagantly theatrical and deeply spiritual, witty, and compassionate, furious and incredibly smart . . . It’s impossible to imagine anyone captivated by the beginning not wanting—needing—to go back for the end.''—Linda Winer, Newsday''An enormously impressive work of the imagination and intellect, a towering example of what theatre stretched to its full potential can achieve.''—Clifford A. Ridley, Philadelphia Inquirer''Perestroika is a masterpiece.''—John Lahr, New Yorker