Angels in America (Broadway) NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (859)
See it if You want to see a brilliant drama that is very timely.
Don't see it if You hate long plays even though this production flies by .
See it if You want to see an incredibly production of The Great American Play.
Don't see it if You don't have enough of an attention span for two four hour long plays.
See it if You want to see acting and writing at the top of it’s game. All players leave you with a visceral reaction.
Don't see it if If gay themes bother you.
See it if You want to see the best play of the current generation given a perfect staging by a great director leading a flawless cast.
Don't see it if You cannot sit for a 7 hour play that flies by and engages the heart, mind and soul.
See it if You enjoy a great work of art. If you wish to be profoundly be moved by a masterpiece in storytelling performed by a wondrous cast.
Don't see it if You have a heart of stone.
See it if you want to see one of the best plays to be written in our life time and if you enjoy outstanding acting and staging.
Don't see it if you don't think that you can make it through 7 1/2 hours of theatre. Note: there are intermissions between the acts so you can stretch. Read more
See it if you like true story docudramas that don't sugar coat history
Don't see it if you don't like depressing
See it if You want to be engrossed in a beautiful, surreal experience that will stick with you
Don't see it if You don't have the stamina for 7.5 hours of theater. You are uncomfortable with full nudity
Critic Reviews (63)
"'Angels' remains compelling. It is very funny and moving and smart. It is also overwhelming and sprawling...and at times inaccessibly esoteric...Whatever flaws exist in the play and in the production, they are like so many speed bumps in a glorious road trip driven by Kushner’s rage, passion, compassion, intelligence, energy, and ear...May not be a hugely more significant production, as all the attention could make you believe. But this 'Angels' is just as spectacular–and just as can’t-miss."
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"The best American play of the 1990s...The playwright achieves a heavenly piece...This is one of Lane’s greatest stage performances ever. Every one of Elliott’s cast is up to the task, and although it sometimes seems the director has some very ill people shouting more than they should be able, they all succeed greatly in a tech-slick production...The one-on-one confrontations that emerge throughout 'Angels' contain some of Kushner’s most trenchant lines...Such stunning poetry."
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"Kushner's masterpiece is a joy to watch, but it's also, admittedly, a labor...Kushner's brilliance...still wavers in the never-perfected 'Perestroika'...Elliott's swift-moving production sometimes sways toward sentimentalism...The play cringes whenever Kushner's poor-theater aesthetic is punched aside by something so blatantly Hollywood...Garfield delivers a performance of absolute clarion rightness...These little quibbles don’t stain the glory one jot. This Visitation is unmissable."
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"Elliott’s staging enthralls by putting the fantasy of Kushner’s play front and center...Whenever Kushner’s pontifications about the cosmos threaten to dominate, there’s Elliott and her designers hard at work to lift the verbal overload...It’s quite a story, and Kushner’s powers of narrative and imagination are prodigious in 'Millennium Approaches.' 'Perestroika,' which Kushner has continued to rewrite over the years, remains something of a fascinating mess."
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"This epic remains startlingly relevant and Elliott's highly theatrical and insightful new production is simultaneously massive and intimate...When the play opened critics predicted it would take its place alongside the masterworks of O’Neill, Williams, and Miller. This quirky, heartfelt revival confirms that status...Stellar company...The whole seven and a half hour experience moves like a jet-propelled dream. It's an experience you'll never forget."
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"Impressive performances under the equally impressive and inventive direction by Marianne Elliott...Amazingly, while dealing with situations of the utmost seriousness, Kushner injects massive humor along the way, and the combination works splendidly, making the work often very funny as well as penetrating and upsetting. The play offers a bonanza for actors, and this cast comes through admirably...A revival to be cherished, and missing it would certainly leave a gap in one’s theatergoing."
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"The magnificent new production arrives colored by hindsight, through the visionary, outsider perspective of Marianne Elliott...Elliott’s staging makes a striking visual case for the timelessness of Kushner’s cosmic and moral themes — even if it sometimes comes at the expense of the play’s grounding in flesh and blood...As Kushner’s fantasia sprawls and unravels, the wholly cosmic atmosphere Elliott creates with 'Perestroika' feels more visually assured."
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"Outstanding...'Angels' is both specific and monumental. Characters are sympathetic, politics so sharp, the author draws blood, religion knowledgeably manifest, bigotry excoriated. Shockingly, the playwright's arch sense of humor has us laughing through an obstacle course of tragedy. The accomplishment is masterful...Elliott helms an inspired production...Andrew Garfield should get the Tony Award. He’s astonishing. Never before has the actor shown such range and fearlessness."
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