there are no angels in america

[undergroundsf]

[thegreatquestionbeforeus]

Keith Haring, Ignorance = Fear, 1989 — the year in between his diagnosis and death from AIDS in 1990, at the age of 31

[angelsdust12-blog]

The London Angels in America programme really was beautiful

[godlessondheimite]

[marjorierose]

Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change?

Mormon Mother: Well it has something to do with God so it’s not very nice.

God splits the skin with a jagged thumbnail from throat to belly and then plunges a huge filthy hand in, he grabs hold of your bloody tubes and they slip to evade his grasp but he squeezes hard, he insists, he pulls and pulls till all your innards are yanked out and the pain! We can’t even talk about that. And then he stuffs them back, dirty, tangled and torn. It’s up to you to do the stitching.

Harper: And then up you get. And walk around.

Mormon Mother: Just mangled guts pretending.

Harper: That’s how people change.

[transmanemmettforrest-blog]

ANGELS IN AMERICA + original 1978 pride flag meanings

happy pride month on the 40th anniversary of the original pride flag and the 25th anniversary of tony kushner’s epic gay fantasia!

[workinggirl1988]

Congratulations to Andrew Garfield, Tony Award winner for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play

Angels in America (2018) dir. Marianne Elliott

[gee-whizzer]

This is why Andrew won his Tony

[belizedeservesbetter]

I remember a podcast where Denise Gough talked about Harper getting her love from Prior but I also love that where Prior gets his love and gets his joy from is Hannah Pitt of all people. I love the scenes between the two of them and they’re also the scenes where Prior is at his happiest. Prior gets so much comfort from her, more than he ever got from his own mother. She also makes him laugh, which is the best medicine as they say. But I think most importantly she makes him remember that he has choices in his life. There aren’t many he can make and he knows that but he can reject the book the Angel gave him. He can reject the Angel altogether. “An angel is a belief. With wings and arms that can carry you. If it lets you down, reject it.” He can choose to give up and let life happen to him or he can try to fight back every day for as long as he can. 

Prior must be thinking about a lot of people in his life when he’s demanding more life (including Louis) and I think one of those people must be Hannah because more life is more Hannah and more Hannah is more laughter about prophets being fed to whales and more comfort from the storm both outside and inside and more sheer goodness and love from someone who called him human at the moment when he felt the least like one. That line has always struck me because I can’t imagine how important it must feel to be called human, to be thought of as an actual human person, when the government and the people full of hate around him think otherwise. 

I honestly think Hannah may have been the initial inspiration for his demanding of more life (with it being built on by talking to Harper in heaven) because when he was talking with her that was the first time in a long time he loved life. That was the first time in a long time he felt genuinely happy. 

[i-miss-summertime]

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I thought this video of Beth Malone, Andrew Garfield and the angel’s shadows post Andrew’s tony win was particularly valid imo

[fyeahqueertheatre]

What are the salient features of fabulousness? Irony. Tragic history. Defiance. Gender fuck. Glitter. Drama. It is not butch. It is not hot. The cathexis surrounding Fabulousness is not necessarily erotic. The Fabulousness is not delimited by age or beauty. Style has a didactical relationship to physical beauty. The body is real. Style is theatre. The raw materials are reworked into the illusion. For style to be truly fabulous, one must completely triumph over tragedy, age, physical insufficiencies - and just as importantly, one’s audiences must be made aware of the degree of transcendence, of triumph; must see both the triumph and that over which the triumph has been made. (In this, the magic of the Fabulous is precisely the magic of the theater. The wires show. The illusion is always incomplete, inadequate; the work behind the magic is meant to be appreciated.)

Tony Kushner, “Notes Toward a Theater of the Fabulous” from John M. Clum’s Staging Gay Lives. (via fyeahqueertheatre)

[if-only-angels-could-prevail]

“Miller and Williams; or, morality and mystery plays,” from 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time To Write by Sarah Ruhl

[gee-whizzer]

For anon

[elflady]

[adrasteiax]

I just wondered what a thing it would be…if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or love, had really gone away. Free. It would be…heartless terror. Yes. Terrible, and…very great. To shed your skin, every old skin, one by one and then walk away, unencumbered, into the morning.

Tony Kushner, from Angels In America: Millennium Approaches (via adrasteiax)

[gee-whizzer]

[elflady]

[dailybroadwaybeauties]

Beth Malone backstage at the Stars In The Alley Concert