Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika
Playbill shares an excerpt from the book The World Only Spins Forward, which follows the mounting of Perestroika (part two of Angels in America) which was developed at Grad Acting in 1993 with director Michael Mayer and alumna, Debra Messing.
“I’m going to workshop it with some NYU graduate students. And I think that’s probably all I’ll do with it. I’m beginning to run out of steam, because I’ve been working on the play pretty much since 1988 . . . I don’t want this to be the only thing that I ever write.” —Tony Kushner, in conversation with Craig Lucas, Bomb magazine, Spring 1993
Read more about the process in the article below.