Articles about Angels In America


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By David Zurawik and David Zurawik,Sun Television Critic December 7, 2003


HBO's Angels in America is a remarkable and stunning television production. The six hour adaptation of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize winning play about AIDS and America in the 1980s, which begins tonight, goes dead against almost every current trend [url=http://www.fashionshoes.us.com/black-glitter-balota-160mm-replica.html]Blac... Glitter Balota 160mm in prime time network programming. At a time when the major broadcast networks, at the behest of their bottom line oriented corporate masters, are going to ever cheaper formulas such as reality television, the cost of Angels is a whopping $60 million. The HBO miniseries John Adams surpassed the 2003 HBO production Angels in America to become the most honored long form program in TV history. Meanwhile, AMC's Mad Men, a stylish series about life on Madison Avenue in the 1960s, became the first basic cable program to win as best drama.


By J. Wynn Rousuck and J. Wynn Rousuck,SUN THEATER CRITIC November 24, 1995


The identifications of actors Peter Birkenhead and Robert Sella of "Angels in America" were transposed in a photo caption in yesterday's Today section. Wynn Rousuck and J. Wynn Rousuck,sun theater critic October 26, 2006


The millennium was a decade away when Tony Kushner wrote Angels in America. His wildly imaginative work warned of the dangers of big government, disease, addiction, bigotry and of ignoring civic and interpersonal responsibilities. A half dozen years into the new millennium, the Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre has produced Millennium Approaches, Part 1 of Kushner's megawork (the same director and cast return in June with Part 2, Perestroika).


By J. Wynn Rousuck and J. Wynn Rousuck,SUN THEATER CRITIC November 20, 1995


PHILADELPHIA Some people expect him to bark or bite. But he takes it as a compliment. Joseph McCarthy's right hand man during the Communist witch hunts of the 1950s, Cohn is the character Hadary describes as "the devil" in "Angels in America."An imaginative and inspiring two part, seven hour epic by Tony Kushner, "Angels" interweaves the stories of two couples: one homosexual and Blue Suede Balota 140mm the other Mormon (and ostensibly straight)AXIS triumphs with 'Angels in America' Risk: Another theater might have fallen flat on its face in an attempt to mount a production as challenging as Tony [url=http://www.fashionshoes.us.com/gold-patent-leather-au-palace-120mm-replica.... Patent leather Au Palace 120mm[/url] Kushner's Pulitzer Prize winning play.


The identifications of actors Peter Birkenhead and Robert Sella of "Angels in America" were transposed in a photo caption in yesterday's Today section.