Just as when it debuted, much of the buzz around Angels on Broadway is about how relevant Kushner’s parable is to contemporary America. Playwright. At its core, it is the fantastical story of Prior Walter, a gay man living with AIDS who is visited by an angel. Directors. Martin Damien Wilkins. Soulpepper's production of Tony Kushner's celebrated play cycle rewards a long attention span. Freddie Ashley. Tony Kushner’s 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece “Angels in America” is back on Broadway in a transcendent and timely production sleekly staged by Marianne Elliot and featuring a superb ensemble cast; one of the greatest plays ever written and certainly the most important of the past 25 years, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a two-part play by American playwright Tony Kushner.The work won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play.Part one of the play premiered in 1991 and its Broadway opening was in 1993.. Tony Kushner. Stephen Michael Brown. Dr. Jesse Peel. Synopsis. Winner! Mark Williamson. Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play! The latest example is Angels in America, Tony Kushner’s pioneering play about the Aids crisis in Eighties America. In many ways, the nation that elected Trump to “Make America Great Again” isn’t so politically different from the Reagan-era “Morning in America” depicted in Angels decades ago. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches. Sponsored by. Directing Sponsor. The 2017 revival of Angels in America - A Gay Fantasia on National Themes quickly became the fastest-selling show in the history of London's National Theatre.Directed by two-time Tony Award winner Marianne Elliott, the widely praised production now transfers to New York where performances began on February 23, 2018 at the Neil Simon Theatre. Buy Tickets. Theatre Angels in America Is Worth the Marathon Running Time. January 12 - February 17, 2018 . Angels in America is a 2003 American HBO miniseries directed by Mike Nichols and based on the Pulitzer-prize winning play of the same name by Tony Kushner.Set in 1985, the film revolves around six New Yorkers whose lives intersect.