Angels in America Part 2: Perestroika
written by: Tony Kushner
Directed by Marianne Elliott
Neil Simon Theatre
June 8, 2018
Production website
💉💉💉💉💉 out of 5.

Now Part 2 – and what in the holy hell can ytou talk about in a a review.  An audience sits through 4 blissful hours of theatre that engages everyone of your senses, challenges your brain with history, metaphors, poverty and sheer intelligent discourse for 4 hours and NEVER leaves you bored.  I have never been to a show that I thought could just go on and on forever and I would just willing sit and absorb. I only wish I was able to hold on to more of what the play was offering.  It was serving such a delicious theatrical meal at the speed of lighting.   Part 2 becomes much more political.  In Part 2 we experience the odd bedfellows of the liberal and the conservative trying to get it on in the very same bed.  It just doesn’t seem possible.  It does not become possible.  Part 2 takes our AIDS patient Prior and hurls him into the role of prophet who must decide to do with the fate of the world and his place as its only active prophet.  What should he do?  Join the angels in heaven that are already packing up their bags in the fear of the Armageddon OR  risk going back to his dealth bed on earth for what perhaps could be just a few remaining moments of pain and suffering – but more than anything LIFE.  Life at all costs.  Life no matter the price.  I was just  so humbled by this play.  It is certainly not a play that comes down to my level so that I get it – Angels in America remains a play soaring high above daring its audience to grasp what it can.  It is the most satisfying experience I have had in the theatre in years and years.