Summary
Over the weekend, I saw both parts of Signature Theatre Company's production of "Angels in America," an epic piece of theater that got its hooks into me during college by way of a literature course and Mike Nichols' HBO miniseries, but which I'd never seen performed. It was stunning in just about every way, and I wrote my forthcoming column about the prospect (shaky as it stands) of a local production of the show.
I think "Angels in America," especially the first half, is an object lesson in how being smart and emotionally attuned to your audience pays off in terms of popularity. It's the old theory, of which I've written before, that the only true way to grow your audience and expand the popularity of the medium in which you work is to treat theatergoers as hyper-intelligent people. (Which they are.) Kushner's play is as intellectual as they come, but the force of its intellect is only apparent because its emotional content is so exceptionally engrossing.See the full content of this document
Extract
'Angels in America' and a Prophecy for Theater
It goes to show that the more genuine and engrossing a ...
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