SPRING 2023
by Tony Kushner
directed by Claire Donnellan
a senior project in acting for Jordi Bertrán Ramírez and directing for Claire Donnellan
advised by David Chambers and Mike Rossmy
New York City. 1985.
Prior Walter is dying of AIDS. His boyfriend Louis has abandoned him, and his friend Belize doubts Prior’s prophetic visions. Joe Pitt, a Mormon law clerk, struggles to repress his homosexuality while his wife, Harper, self-medicates with fistfuls of Valium. Reaganite conservatism prospers, championed by the vicious prosecutor Roy Cohn, as the new millennium draws closer. And somewhere, Joe’s mother Hannah is disappointed.
Recipient of the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Millennium Approaches is the first half of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, a queer epic of America in crisis.
