<Tr> <Th> Setting </Th> <Td> New York City and elsewhere, 1986--1990 </Td> </Tr> <P> Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a two - part play by American playwright Tony Kushner . The work won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play . Part one of the play premiered in 1991 and its Broadway opening was in 1993 . </P> <P> The play is a complex, often metaphorical, and at times symbolic examination of AIDS and homosexuality in America in the 1980s . Certain major and minor characters are supernatural beings (angels) or deceased persons (ghosts). The play contains multiple roles for several of the actors . Initially and primarily focusing on a gay couple in Manhattan, the play also has several other storylines, some of which occasionally intersect . </P> <P> The two parts of the play are separately presentable and entitled Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, respectively . The play has been adapted into a 2003 miniseries of the same title, and a 2004 opera by Peter Eötvös . </P>

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