Angels in America, is "In this world, there is a kind of painful progress." It somehow encapsulates, in just 10 words, the odyssey of the 6-hour show, which is, among many things, an epic battle between rigid order and necessary change.The play is set during the 80s AIDS crisis in New York.
Queer characters fight for survival as the Reagan administration responds to the turmoil of the crisis with borders and restrictions; scaffolding the play, is also the small matter of a group of bureaucratic angels, who are trying to control human beings by limiting all movement.