Synopsis
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