The National Theatre's live theatrical production of Tony Kushner's two-part play 'Angels In America' about New Yorkers grappling with the AIDS crisis during the mid-1980s.
Acting
Garfield's Prior is career-defining, feral and luminous.
Direction
Elliott's staging makes live theatre feel cinematic.
Production
The angel entrance still gasp-inducing on screen.
Director
Marianne Elliott
Andrew Garfield
Prior Walter/The Man In The Park
Nathan Lane
Roy M. Cohn/Prior 2
Susan Brown
Hannah Pitt/Rabbi Chemelwitz/Roy's Doctor/Ethel Rosenberg
Denise Gough
Harper Pitt/Martin Heller
Amanda Lawrence
The Angel/The Voice/Nurse Emily/Sister Chapter/Homeless Woman
James McArdle
Louis Ironson
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
Belize/Mr. Lies
Russell Tovey
Joseph Pitt/Prior 1/The Eskimo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 2017 revival sold out in hours; Garfield and Lane both won Tonys for these performances.
Kushner wrote Part One in 1991 when AZT was failing and ACT UP was screaming—this production arrived as PrEP-era complacency needed shaking.
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