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Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, Part 1 of the Acclaimed Drama at Lowry Lab Theater

Lowry Lab Theater, Lowry Building (350 St. Peter Street St. Paul, MN 55102)
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Theatre Coup d'Etat presents the first part of Tony Kushner's acclaimed two-part play Angels in America at Lowry Lab Theater. This critically-acclaimed play examines questions of politics, morality, community and forgiveness at the height of the AIDS epidemic. In part 1, Millennium Approaches, the year is 1985 and Ronald Reagan has just been elected to his second term as President. The audience is introduced to two couples, one gay and one straight, each dealing with crises in their relationships. As their fates become intertwined, they are forced to re-evaluate their identities and embrace change. Their journeys, alone and together, open the way for miraculous events to occur. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for Best Play, Millennium Approaches addresses the social issues surrounding homosexuality and AIDS in a manner that is both intimate and epic at once.

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The last date listed for Angels In America: Millennium Approaches was Saturday August 4, 2012 / 8:00pm.

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Lowry Lab Theater
Lowry Building,
350 St. Peter Street
St. Paul, MN 55102
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This 3-hour play is a rhapsody to the gay life, celebrating the breakdown of a marriage, accepting the challenges of HIV-AIDS, seeing religion as hypocrisy. We hated it.

Written on Aug 06 2012
Missing_member_pic_grid_2_1 Goldstar Member
5.0

All actors were excellent! Topics covered were very relevant to today's world. However if profanity upsets you this is not the play for you.

Written on Aug 06 2012
Missing_member_pic_grid_2_1 Goldstar Member
4.0

Poignant. Moving. Impossible to ignore. Very much worth seeing!

Written on Aug 06 2012
Missing_member_pic_grid_2_1 Stuart Holland
5.0

I was a bit hesitant going to such a large production in such a small space, but it turned out to be irrelevant. The production was wonderful - ingenious use of set and space, and acting was very moving. Really loved the production.

Written on Aug 06 2012
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Once again, Theatre Coup d’Etat is rolling up their sleeves and shooting for the heart with Tony Kushner's award winning saga, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches. Winner of the 1993 Pulitzer for drama, Angels in America is set in the 1980s against a backdrop of conservatism, sexual politics, and the discovery of an epidemic cutting a wide cloth though society. Both a love story and a political drama, centering on a group of inextricably connected people whose relationships are disintegrating as a generation falls prey to a culture of greed. Kushner's dark, cynical humor captures the fragility of the human condition and his prophetic and sublime words pierce the heart and move you to tears. Angels in America was a turning point in history of classic American Playwright Literature and 20 years later is still considered a profound and moving theatrical event not to be missed.

Director Justin M. Kirkeberg (Candid Theater Co.) will be taking the reigns and heading up a cast of Twin Cities brightest up and coming talent

Believing that Theatre should give back to the community, Theatre Coup d’Etat has teamed up with one of the Twin Cities most prolific charitable organizations, The Aliveness Project, whose mission is “to encourage self-empowerment and provide direct services for persons living with HIV/AIDS. Established in 1985, The Aliveness Project has been a beacon of hope by providing community resources and serving as an active leader in the HIV/AIDS community in the Twin Cities.

Theatre Coup d’Etat is committed to helping change the world by starting with their own community and will be donating 5% of all ticket sales to The Aliveness Project. (www.aliveness.org)

*This show contains adult content and themes.

About the Ticket Supplier: Theatre Coup d'Etat

Theatre Coup d'Etat's mission is to provoke an emotional and analytical response in our audiences by showing the depth of the human condition through both through classical and contemporary works.