In 1993, the same year that Tom Hanks’ Philadelphia broke down barriers surrounding AIDS and an HBO film based on Randy Schilts’ And The Band Played On deconstructed the beginnings of the epidemic, Tony Kushner’s seminal heightened-reality play began making waves.

Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is, as the name suggests, a work that covers a vast amount of territory. Set mainly in ’80s New York, Angels tackled AIDS, homosexuality, Mormonism, humor, supernaturalism, death, and the issues both inside and outside the closet.

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I love robots, social media, words in all their many methods, music, reality TV, great food whether haute or pedestrian, and my lovers — both physical and non-corporeal (my muse never lets me forget she’s my primary partner). More KC madness at www.kalcobalt.com![/box]

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