It's 1985. Reagan is backing a culture of ruthless self-interest. The cold war is ending. The ozone layer is melting. New Yorkers are learning how to survive a plague. It's at this tipping point that the great work begins.
Prior has big news. And his firebrand leftie boyfriend isn’t coping with it. Harper is popping pills as fast as she can; her husband is wrestling with truth versus reality. Roy is ravaged by sickness but clinging on to corruption. Told with exuberance, wit, energy a...
It's 1985. Reagan is backing a culture of ruthless self-interest. The cold war is ending. The ozone layer is melting. New Yorkers are learning how to survive a plague. It's at this tipping point that the great work begins.
Prior has big news. And his firebrand leftie boyfriend isn’t coping with it. Harper is popping pills as fast as she can; her husband is wrestling with truth versus reality. Roy is ravaged by sickness but clinging on to corruption. Told with exuberance, wit, energy and an almost apocalyptic sense of play, Tony Kushner’s wild fantasia carries the audience headlong through an astonishing theatrical landscape populated by communists, capitalists, Mormons, rabbis, mothers, homos and ghosts.
Great plays always have something to say to us. This one has the pulse of the urgent present. It is dramatic. It is hilarious. It is melodrama. It is soap opera. It is heroic. It is daring. It is human. It is all of the things.
And that’s only half of the story.
PERFORMANCE DATES
Friday June 17 @ 8pm
Saturday June 18 @ 8pm
Sunday June 19 @ 7pm
Friday June 24 @ 8pm
Saturday June 25 @ 8pm
Saunday June 26 @ 3pm
VENUE
Columbus Performing Arts Center - Van Fleet Theatre
549 Franklin Avenue (in Olde Towne East)
CAST
Prior Walter....................Andrew Trimmer
Louis Ironson................Cody Shope
Joe Pitt............................Mike Writtenberry
Harper Pitt......................Camille Bullock
Roy Cohn........................Brent Alan Burington
Hannah Pitt....................Susan Gellman
Belize...............................Kevin Tate
The Angel........................Kaitlin Descutner