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Photos Celebrate Tony Kushner's Birthday With a Look Back at the 2018 Broadway Revival of Angels in America The Tony- and Pulitzer鈥搘inning playwright was born July 16, 1956.
Beth Malone and Andrew Garfield Brinkhoff-Moegenburg

Tony Award鈥� and Pulitzer Prize鈥搘inning playwright Tony Kushner celebrates his birthday July 16. In honor, we're taking a look back at the star-studded, Tony-winning revival of Kushner's masterpiece, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.

The revival, which stared Nathan Lane and Andrew Garfield (both of whom picked up Tony Awards for their performances), played a limited engagement at the Neil Simon Theatre, opening on March 25, 2018, and closing July 15 that year after extending its originally scheduled 14鈥搘eek run by two weeks. The production earned 11 RTony Award nominations鈥攖he most of any play in Broadway history鈥攁nd, in addition to wins for Lane and Garfield, also too home the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play.

The production transferred from London's National Theatre, complete with direction by Marianne Elliott. The cast included Garfield as Prior Walter, Lane as Roy Cohn, Denise Gough as Harper Pitt, Susan Brown as Hannah Pitt, James McArdle as Louis Ironson, Lee Pace as Joseph Pitt, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett as Belize, and Amanda Lawrence as the Angel (played at select performances by ).

Flip through photos from the production below:

Production Photos: Angels in America on Broadway

 
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