Set in Reagan-Era New York City, Angels in America is Tony Kushner’s two-part epic on national themes, the AIDS crisis, and spiritual and political morality. Forum presents the play that affected an entire generation for the current 2009 American landscape. A colorful array of
characters
become intertwined as they grapple with identity, community,
guilt, intimacy and forgiveness. At once harrowing and uproarious, Angels in America is a
fiercely theatrical modern morality play and a
landmark of the American stage.Featuring Ro Boddie, Daniel Eichner, Nanna Ingvarsson, Jim Jorgensen, Jennifer Mendenhall*, Karl Miller*, Casie Platt, Alexander Strain*
Designed by Colin K. Bills, Tony Cisek, Paul Frydrychowski, Heather Lockard, Matt M. Nielson, Ivania Stack, and Jesse Terrill
Stage Managed by Kate Lucibella and Zachary Ford
Produced by Julia Harman Cain
* Member, Actors’ Equity Association
All performances held at Round House Theatre Silver Spring
8641 Colesville Road
Silver Spring, MD 20910
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Part I, Millennium Approaches: October 5–November 28, 2009
directed by Jeremy Skidmore
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"A sustained round of applause, then, for Forum's appetite as
well as for the supple execution. What stays with you on this occasion
is not so much the ferocity of the playwright's outrage at what he
views as Reagan-era callousness...Rather, it's the idea of personal
crises captured on an urgently human scale..."
—Peter Marks, The Washington Post
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review.
"On the blessed day when we shut down HIV for good, Angels in America will still be
relevant...And when it is produced as superbly as Forum Theatre has
produced Part I, using some of the best actors in Washington, it will
be beautiful as well."
—Tim Treanor, DC Theatre Scene
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review.
directed by Michael Dove
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"Forum nearly always gets this right, delivering an epic that throws elbows, lands punch lines and wraps its arms around a broken—but improvable—world."
—Nelson Pressley, The Washington Post
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"In a week of big-deal shows, the most ambitious production may be Forum Theatre’s latest, in which characters wrestle with angels and a playwright grapples with themes as big as time and as intimate as death."
—Trey Graham, Washington City Paper
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