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📖 Read on Archive.org (external link, opens in new tab)- Author
- Tony Kushner
- Publisher
- Bt Bound
- Pages
- 128
- Series
- L'Avant-scène. Théâtre -- no 957
- Readers
- 5.0★ (1)
Angels in America, Part One
1992 · Book · Tony Kushner
LGBTQ HIV/AIDSLGBTQ playsLambda Literary AwardsLambda Literary Award WinnerDramaGay men
“ROY M. COHN, a successful New York lawyer and unofficial power broker.”
Winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Winner of the 1993 Tony Award for Best Play. In the first part of Tony Kushner's epic, set in 1980's New York City, a gay man is abandoned by his lover when he contracts the AIDS virus, and a closeted Mormon lawyer's marriage to his pill-popping wife stalls. Other characters include the infamous McCarthy-ite lawyer Roy Cohn, Ethel Rosenberg, a former drag queen who works as a nurse, and an angel. by Tony Kushner