<P> A decade after the play's premiere, Metro Weekly labeled it "one of the most important pieces of theater to come out of the late 20th century ." </P> <P> By contrast, in an essay titled "Angles in America", Lee Siegel wrote in The New Republic, "Angels in America is a second - rate play written by a second - rate playwright who happens to be gay, and because he has written a play about being gay, and about AIDS, no one--and I mean no one--is going to call Angels in America the overwrought, coarse, posturing, formulaic mess that it is ." </P> <P> In response to the frank treatment of homosexuality and AIDS, and brief male nudity, the play quickly became subject to controversial reaction from conservative and religious groups, sometimes labelled as being part of the "culture war". In Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1996, there were protests held outside a production of the play by the Charlotte Repertory Theatre at the North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center . This led to funding cuts for the Arts and Science Council of Charlotte, the city's arts funding agency, in the following year . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> <Dl> <Dt> Millennium Approaches </Dt> </Dl> <Ul> <Li> 1990 Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays (non-competitive grant) </Li> <Li> 1991 Bay Area Drama Critics Award for Best Play </Li> <Li> 1991 National Arts Club Joseph Kesselring Award </Li> <Li> 1992 Evening Standard Award for Best Play </Li> <Li> 1992 London Drama Critics Circle Award for Best New Play </Li> <Li> 1993 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play </Li> <Li> 1993 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play </Li> <Li> 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Drama </Li> <Li> 1993 Tony Award for Best Play </Li> <Li> 1993 - 1994 Outer Critics Circle for Best Broadway Play (Angels in America, Parts I and II: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika) </Li> </Ul> <P> </P> </Td> <Td> <Dl> <Dt> Perestroika </Dt> </Dl> <Ul> <Li> 1992 Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays (non-competitive grant) </Li> <Li> 1992 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best New Play </Li> <Li> 1994 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play </Li> <Li> 1994 Tony Award for Best Play </Li> </Ul> <P> </P> </Td> </Tr> </Table>

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