Angels in America, Tony Kushner
Angels in America, Tony Kushner
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Angels in America
A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

Author: Tony Kushner

Narrator: Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, Susan Brown, Denise Gough, Beth Malone, James McArdle, Lee Pace, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Bobby Cannavale, Edie Falco

Unabridged: 6 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/14/2019


Synopsis

Presenting an original audiobook performance of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, starring the cast of the National Theatre's 2018 Broadway revival.

In this production, adapted especially for the listening experience, Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, and the entire cast recreate their acclaimed performances from the 2018 Tony Award-winning National Theatre revival of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. With narration by Bobby Cannavale and Edie Falco, and a musical score by Adrian Sutton, this audiobook is a compelling and immersive theatrical listening experience.

A play in two parts, Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a complex and insightful look into identity, community, justice, and redemption. New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, and heaven and hell as the AIDS crisis intensifies during a time of political reaction--the Reagan Republican counterrevolution of the 1980s. Published to celebrate the Broadway revival, this is a unique opportunity to hear one of the most honored and timeless plays in American history.

Full Cast:
Andrew Garfield as Prior Walter
Nathan Lane as Roy M. Cohn
Susan Brown as Hannah Pitt
Denise Gough as Harper Pitt
Beth Malone as The Angel
James McArdle as Louis Ironson
Lee Pace as Joseph Pitt
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett as Belize
With narration by
Bobby Cannavale (Millennium Approaches)
Edie Falco (Perestroika)

Based on the National Theatre production, directed by Marianne Elliott.
Music by Adrian Sutton.
© 1992 by Tony Kushner | Production copyright: 2019 Penguin Random House Audio
Cover art © Ryan Hopkinson

Reviews

Goodreads review by Josh on January 26, 2008

Reading these plays aloud in a high school class created more than a few awkward moments.......more

Goodreads review by Meike on August 03, 2024

An almost eight-hour-long play about the AIDS crisis in 80's New York? Yes, please, if it's written like that! The Pulitzer- and Tony-winning text/production is a captivating illustration of the time, rendered in a deep, moving, and frequently very funny tone. Part 1, Millennium Approaches, introduc......more

Goodreads review by Barry on April 16, 2019

Genuinely a bit taken aback by how.....not well Angels in America works as a text. It's really a work that has to be seen, and endured. Millennium Approaches still quite clearly the stronger of the plays, Perestroika still too meandering and arduous but nonetheless a good counterbalance. I'd love to......more

Goodreads review by Gerhard on August 08, 2023

'Americans pay high prices for maintaining the myth of the Individual: We have no system of universal health care, we don’t educate our children, we can’t pass sane gun control laws, we elect presidents like Reagan, we hate and fear inevitable processes like aging and death.' Kushner wrote the above......more

Goodreads review by Emma on November 16, 2017

"This disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all, and the dead will be commemorated and will struggle on with the living, and we are not going away. We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come." Angels in America is my favo......more