BU Today feature: CFA Presents Two-Part Pulitzer Winner Angels in America
This article first appeared in BU Today on October 18, 2018.
In the 1980s, America was riven by a crisis that the federal government mostly ignored, a tragedy that played out across the country in living rooms and hospital wards and in whispers that gradually gave way to angry roars as more and more people—many of them gay men—began dying.
Tony Kushner’s epic two-part play Angels in America, a searing exploration of this country during the height of the AIDS epidemic, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and both parts won the Tony Award for best play. A revival hit Broadway last year starring Andrew Garfield, and now the College of Fine Arts School of Theatre brings it to the Booth Theatre. Part One: Millennium Approaches runs this weekend and Part Two: Perestroika next weekend, each with a different cast and director.