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AMERICA, LOST AND FOUND.(Angels in America)(Television Program Review)

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John Lahr reviews "Caroline, or Change"

From 1992, Arthur Lubow on Tony Kushner

There is wide agreement, and no compelling counterargument, that Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" is the most important play of the last decade. A fearless, ambitious work, it took in, and took on, the Reagan years (it is set in 1985 and 1986), American history, the aids plague, sexuality, love, death, religion, and the meaning of community. In its rigor, it made no distinction between the personal and the political, but it was open-minded and openhearted, epic not just in its intent but in its effect on audiences--people were swept in, swept away, and changed by it, their ...

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