ABSTRACT
When HBO aired the two parts of Mike Nichols’s television adaptation of Tony Kushner’s Millennium Approaches (1993) and Perestroika (1996), in December 2003, what seemed manifestly apparent was that the mammoth work had emerged as one of the great dramatic achievements of the twentieth century. Having opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre a decade earlier, it had clearly stood the test of time.1 After earning the Pulitzer Prize (1993) and two Tony awards, between the time of its Broadway closing and the star-studded HBO spectacle (which earned five Golden Globes), Angels in America was widely performed across America, mostly by not-for-profit theatres and campus theatre departments.
