Project #2: ANGELS IN AMERICA: PART I: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES

Option #2

1. The Stage Production Before it Moved to Broadway (pre-1993)

Playwright Scales Dramatic Heights
by David Patrick Stearns, USA TODAY, June 26, 1991, Wednesday, FINAL EDITION
http://www.lexisnexis.com.unx1.shsu.edu:2048/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T5788579127&format=GNBFI&sort=RELEVANCE&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T5788579130&cisb=22_T5788579129&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=8213&docNo=1

"With a battery of special effects, director David Ira Goldstein combines a serious tone with the wacky grotesqueness of the old TV show The Addams Family."

This is a short review, it gives a quick summary of the play. This reviewer sings praises of Kushner while giving a unique comment to the director.

2. The Original Broadway Production (1993)

Soaring "Angels in America"//Ethereal epic of dissolution takes flight on Broadway
by David Patrick Stearns, USA TODAY, May 5, 1993, Wednesday, FINAL DESTINATION

http://www.lexisnexis.com.unx1.shsu.edu:2048/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T5788616742&format=GNBFI&sort=RELEVANCE&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T5788616750&cisb=22_T5788616749&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=8213&docNo=1

"But director George C. Wolfe has taken the best from the Los Angeles production, shored up the weaker areas and delivered a work that unfolds with such fleetness, you wish there weren't intermissions..."

This reviewer again delivers a short review of this production. This review consists of a compliment to the director, a judgement on the acting performances, and a few compliments to Tony Kushner.

3. A Non-NYC-Based Professional Production (since 1993)

Theatre: Angels in America. Part One: Millennium Approaches
by James Marland, 28 April 2008, Media-Culture Reviews

http://reviews.media-culture.org.au/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2538

"...Alex Galeazzi has directed an impressive adaptation of Kushner’s extraordinarily complex text."

This review delivers a summary of the play, a description of set and projections used during this production. The acting choices, directing and technical choices are observed. This reviewer was quite subjective in this re-telling of his experience

4. A College Production (anytime)

K-College theater hits most notes of 'Angels in America' just right
by Mark Wedel, Special to the Gazette, May 16, 2008

http://blog.mlive.com/kzgazette/2008/05/kcollege_theater_hits_most_not.html

"...the cast and crew of Kalamazoo College's Festival Playhouse hit most of the many notes just right, giving the three hours a moving emotional core."

The reviewer praises Tony Kushner on his script. This review covers the look of the set, the prop mishaps, and the scene changes. The casting and acting are judged and found acceptable if not exemplary, in the reviewer's eyes.

5. The HBO Mini-Series (2003 Film Version)

Angels in America (2003)
by Harry Jacobs Summers

http://www.nursingadvocacy.org/media/films/angels.html

"The six-hour movie is a dazzling exploration of faith, politics and sexuality in the United States soon after the start of the AIDS era."

This review gives a summary of the play, tells of directing and acting choices and discusses problems this viewer had with certain aspects of this production. One of the points of this review is to discuss the light in which nurses are portrayed.