National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part Two: Perestroika

Jul 27, 2017

3h 41m

★ 8.6

A Gay Fantasia On National Themes

Overview

America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. This new staging of Tony Kushner's multi-award winning two-part play, Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia On National Themes, is directed by Olivier and Tony award winning director Marianne Elliott.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

National Theatre

National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part Two: Perestroika Trailers

Cast

Prior Walter

Andrew Garfield

Roy M. Cohn/The Angel Antarctica

Nathan Lane

Hannah Pitt/Aleksii/Doctor/Ethel Rosenberg/The Angel Asiatica

Susan Brown

Harper Pitt/The Angel Africanii

Denise Gough

The Angel/Voice Of Orrin/Mormon Centre Mother/Nurse Emily

Amanda Lawrence

Louis Ironson/The Angel Australia

James McArdle

Belize/Mr. Lies/Voice Of Caleb/The Angel Oceania

Nathan Stewart-Jarrett

Joseph Pitt/Mormon Centre Father/The Angel Europa

Russell Tovey

Angel Shadow

Stuart Angell

Angel Shadow

Laura Caldow

Angel Shadow

Claire Lambert

Angel Shadow

Becky Namgauds

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