Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika

Tony Kushner

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Note

See ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART ONE: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES.
Part One and Part Two may be purchased as a bundle at 20% off the regular price: ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART ONE and PART TWO
Part One and Part Two are also included in THE TONY KUSHNER COLLECTION
Winner of the 1994 Tony Award for Best Play

Description

In the second part of Tony Kushner's epic, the plague of AIDS worsens, relationships fall apart as new ones form, and unexpected friendships take form.

Production Info

Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 220 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Reviews

Press Quotes

“PERESTROIKA is not only a stunning resolution of the rending human drama of MILLENIUM APPROACHES, but also a true millennial work of art, uplifting, hugely comic and pantheistically religious in a very American style.” —Frank Rich, New York Times

“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

“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

“Not since Tennessee Williams has a playwright announced his poetic vision with such authority on the Broadway stage … PERESTROIKA is a masterpiece.” —John Lahr, New Yorker

About the Author

Author

  • Tony Kushner

    Born in New York City in 1956, and raised in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Tony Kushner is best known for his two-part epic, ANGELS IN AMERICA: A GAY FANTASIA ON NATIONAL THEMES. His other plays include A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY, SLAVS!, HYDROTAPHIA, HOMEBODY/KABUL, and CAROLINE, OR CHANGE, the musical for which he wrote book and lyrics, with music by composer Jeanine Tesori. Kushner has translated and adapted Pierre Corneille's THE ILLUSION, S.Y. Ansky's THE DYBBUK, Bertolt Brecht's THE GOOD PERSON OF SEZUAN and MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN, and the English-language libretto for the children's opera BRUNDIBÁR by Hans Krasa. He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols' film of Angels in America and Steven Spielberg's Munich. In 2012 he wrote the screenplay for Spielberg's movie Lincoln. His screenplay was nominated for an Academy Award, and won the New York Film Critics Circle Award, Boston Society of Film Critics Award, Chicago Film Critics Award, and several others. His books include But the Giraffe: A Curtain Raising and Brundibar: The Libretto, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak; The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the Present; and Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict, co-edited with Alisa Solomon. His recent work includes a collection of one-act plays entitled TINY KUSHNER, and THE INTELLIGENT HOMOSEXUAL'S GUIDE TO CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM WITH A KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES. In addition, a revival of ANGELS IN AMERICA ran Off-Broadway at the Signature Theater and won the Lucille Lortel Award in 2011 for Outstanding Revival. Kushner is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an Emmy Award, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, an Arts Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a PEN/Laura Pels Award, a Spirit of Justice Award from the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, a Cultural Achievement Award from The National Foundation for Jewish Culture, a Chicago Tribune Literary Prize for lifetime achievement, and the 2012 National Medal of Arts, among many others. CAROLINE, OR CHANGE, produced at the National Theatre of Great Britain, received the EVENING STANDARD Award, the London Drama Critics' Circle Award and the Olivier Award for Best Musical. In September 2008, Tony Kushner became the first recipient of the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, the largest theater award in the US. He is the subject of a documentary film, Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner, made by the Oscar-winning filmmaker Freida Lee Mock. He lives in Manhattan with his husband, Mark Harris.

About the Book

Book Information

Publisher BPPI
Publication Date 1/30/2017
Pages 182
ISBN 9780881456523

Special Notes

Special Notes

All licensees are required to give credit to the original stage producers of the play in the following form on the title page in all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play and in all advertising in which the full cast appears in size of type not less than ten percent (10%) of the size of the title of the Play:

PERESTROIKA was first performed as a staged reading by the Eureka Theatre Company in May 1991

The world premiere was presented by the Mark Taper Forum in November 1992

The play was presented by New York University/Tisch School of the Arts in April 1993

The play opened in London at the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain in November 1993

Opened in New York at the Walter Kerr Theatre in November 1993

In addition, the following must appear within all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play:

Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika is performed by special arrangement
with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, New York, NY
Productions

Upcoming and Recent Productions

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9/11/2025 – 10/5/2025
Warwick, RI

10/23/2024 – 11/10/2024
Portland, ME

10/11/2024 – 10/27/2024
Oakland Theater Project
San Rafael, CA

11/20/2023 – 12/17/2023
That Theatre Company
Toronto, ON, Canada

9/14/2023 – 10/22/2023
Central Square Theater
Cambridge, MA

4/17/2023 – 4/17/2023
Arena Stage
Washington, DC

9/11/2019 – 10/6/2019
Repertory Theatre Of St. Louis
St Louis, MO

3/22/2019 – 4/20/2019
Cygnet Theatre
San Diego, CA

10/26/2018 – 10/28/2018
Boston University CFA SOT
Boston, MA

9/28/2018 – 10/7/2018
Uptown Players
Dallas, TX

5/27/2018 – 5/27/2018
New Stages Peterborough aka New Stages Theatre Company
Peterborough, ON, Canada

4/27/2018 – 5/20/2018
Ensemble Theatre
Cleveland Heights, OH

4/17/2018 – 7/22/2018
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Berkeley, CA

1/18/2018 – 2/18/2018
Actor's Express
Atlanta, GA

9/15/2017 – 10/8/2017
Actors Theatre Of Louisville
Louisville, KY

9/7/2017 – 10/8/2017
Arts Club Theatre Company
Vancouver, BC, Canada

6/8/2017 – 7/2/2017
Short North Stage
Columbus, OH

10/2/2016 – 10/2/2016
The Rogue Theatre
Tucson, AZ

Nonprofessional


6/6/2025 – 6/22/2025
Haddon, NJ

11/8/2024 – 11/24/2024
Colia Productions
Burbank, CA

11/1/2024 – 11/10/2024
Danbury, CT

10/8/2024 – 10/19/2024
Dartford, DA, United Kingdom

9/12/2024 – 9/22/2024
University Of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI

6/29/2024 – 6/29/2024
The Drama Group
Chicago Heights, IL

6/24/2024 – 6/24/2024
Chatham Community Players
Chatham, NJ

6/21/2024 – 6/30/2024
Ephrata Performing Arts Center
Ephrata, PA

5/31/2024 – 6/10/2024
1st Street Players
Birdsboro, PA

5/2/2024 – 5/26/2024
University Of Adelaide Theatre Guild
Adelaide, SA, Australia

4/19/2024 – 4/27/2024
Greenfield Community College
Greenfield, MA

2/15/2024 – 2/18/2024
Geyer Performing Arts Center
Scottdale, PA

9/28/2023 – 10/29/2023
Maryland Ensemble Theatre
Frederick, MD

6/2/2023 – 7/1/2023
Bard Fest
Indianapolis, IN

5/19/2023 – 5/21/2023
Qc Concerts
Matthews, NC

5/12/2023 – 5/21/2023
Gettysburg Community Theatre
Gettysburg, PA

4/1/2023 – 4/4/2023
Yale University
New Haven, CT

3/10/2023 – 3/18/2023
Green River College
Auburn, WA

2/17/2023 – 2/25/2023
Valencia College
Orlando, FL

2/4/2023 – 2/26/2023
Eastline Players Corp
Lindenhurst, NY

12/1/2022 – 12/11/2022
Kallisti Theatre Company
Salt Lake City, UT

10/8/2022 – 10/16/2022
Sea View Playwrights Theatre, Sea View Nursing Home
Staten Island, NY

4/22/2022 – 5/8/2022
Foolish Production Co
Los Angeles, CA

10/25/2020 – 10/25/2020
Company Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC

6/27/2020 – 6/27/2020
Alchemy Theatre Company
Fullerton, CA

5/8/2020 – 5/10/2020
Open Stage Of Harrisburg
Harrisburg, PA

2/23/2020 – 2/26/2020
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN

11/14/2019 – 11/24/2019
Southern Oregon University, Theatre
Ashland, OR

7/5/2019 – 7/21/2019
Roseville Theatre Arts Academy
Roseville, CA

4/26/2019 – 5/12/2019
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI

3/21/2019 – 3/28/2019
Baltimore City College
Baltimore, MD

3/9/2019 – 3/9/2019
Western State Colorado University
Gunnison, CO

3/7/2019 – 3/10/2019
Joliet Junior College
Joliet, IL

2/24/2019 – 3/17/2019
Lakewood Playhouse
Lakewood, WA

11/10/2018 – 11/18/2018
South Puget Sound Community College
Olympia, WA

11/9/2018 – 11/17/2018
South Puget Sound Community College
Olympia, WA

11/8/2018 – 11/10/2018
Stanford Theater Lab
Stanford, CA

9/8/2018 – 9/9/2018
Bold Theatrics
Oneonta, NY

5/4/2018 – 5/13/2018
Little Theatre Of Wilkes Barre
Wilkes-Barre, PA

4/27/2018 – 4/27/2018
Bosque School
Albuquerque, NM

4/24/2018 – 5/6/2018
University Of Washington School Of Drama
Seattle, WA

4/12/2018 – 4/15/2018
Oberlin College
Oberlin, OH

3/9/2018 – 3/10/2018
An Other Theater Company
Provo, UT

2/16/2018 – 3/3/2018
Empty Space Productions
Bakersfield, CA

12/8/2017 – 12/23/2017
Theatredart
Colorado Springs, CO

11/15/2017 – 11/19/2017
The University Of Oklahoma
Norman, OK

8/28/2017 – 8/28/2017
Omaha Community Playhouse
Omaha, NE

6/14/2017 – 6/14/2017
A Noise Within
Pasadena, CA

6/11/2017 – 6/12/2017
Acting Ensemble
South Bend, IN

5/11/2017 – 5/20/2017
Civic Theatre Of Allentown
Allentown, PA

3/11/2017 – 3/25/2017
Act 1 Theater Co.
Nashville, TN

3/9/2017 – 3/12/2017
University Of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR

2/10/2017 – 2/11/2017
Breakthrough Workshop Theatre
San Diego, CA

10/28/2016 – 11/6/2016
Clark State Community College
Springfield, OH

10/28/2016 – 11/12/2016
Players Club Of Swarthmore
Swarthmore, PA

10/19/2016 – 10/22/2016
Baldwin Wallace University
Berea, OH

9/23/2016 – 9/25/2016
UCSD Theatre And Dance
San Diego, CA