ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART ONE: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES

By Tony Kushner

January 21 & 22, 2026

Please note, Theatrical Tendencies will be presenting this production as a staged reading.

Millennium Approaches is the first part of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America, an epic drama set in 1980s New York City during the AIDS crisis, exploring themes of love, loss, politics, religion, and identity through interconnected storylines, including a gay couple's struggles, a Mormon lawyer's crisis, and the powerful, closeted lawyer Roy Cohn. The play blends realism with fantasy, featuring supernatural elements like angels, and is known for its ambitious scope, humor, and poignant examination of American life during the Reagan era. 

“Daring and dazzling! The most ambitious American play of our time: an epic that ranges from earth to heaven; focuses on politics, sex and religion; transports us to Washington, the Kremlin, the South Bronx, Salt Lake City and Antarctica; deals with Jews, Mormons, WASPs, blacks; switches between realism and fantasy, from the tragedy of AIDS to the camp comedy of drag queens to the death or at least the absconding of God.” ⁠—⁠Jack Kroll, Newsweek

“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

“A victory for theater, for the transforming power of the imagination to turn devastation into beauty. ANGELS IN AMERICA is a monumental achievement, the work of a defiantly theatrical imagination that has no parallel on television or in the movies. It ennobles Broadway as no other work in recent memory has.” ⁠—⁠Jeremy Gerard, Variety