Article: Boston Theatre Works continues to soar with `Angels in America'.(Arts and Lifestyle)

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The Boston Herald
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January 29, 2008
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Byline: JENNA SCHERER

"ANGELS IN AMERICA,

PART TWO: PERESTROIKA."

Presented by Boston Theatre Works at the BCA Calderwood Pavilion, Saturday night. Through Feb. 10.

If you're going to write a two-part, seven-hour play, it had better be the best thing since sliced bread. Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" leaves sliced bread in the dust. His theatrical meditation on sex and death, politics and history, religion and philosophy is arguably the greatest play of our age.

I spent the week since I saw Boston Theatre Works' production of "Part One: MillenniumApproaches" itching for the sequel. At the curtain of "Part Two: ...

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