Angels in America

“With faith and time and hard work you reach a point where… where the disappointment doesn’t hurt as much, and then it gets actually easy to live with. Quite easy. Which is in its own way a disappointment.”

Tony Kushner’s Angels in America is a sweeping, poetic two-part epic play about love, loss, and the search for meaning at the height of the 1980s AIDS crisis.

Blending piercing political insight with flights of magic and imagination – and a nostalgic nod to the music of the era – it follows a group of New Yorkers whose lives collide in moments of heartbreak, revelation, and unexpected hope. At once intimate and vast, tragic and funny, the play asks timeless questions about identity, faith, and human resilience – reminding us that even in the darkest times, there is possibility, transformation, and the promise of more life.

Following the international acclaim of the National Theatre revival and the celebrated HBO miniseries, Sedos takes a daring artistic leap with a boldly re-envisioned experience for the intimate stage, offering a fresh, immediate encounter with Kushner’s masterpiece.

Both parts will be offered in a unique theatrical experience at the Bridewell in November 2026. Do not miss out on the event of the ‘Millennium’.

Performance schedule:

Thursday 19 November 7pm: Part One – Millennium Approaches
Friday 20 November 7pm: Part Two – Perestroika
Saturday 21 November 1pm: Part One – Millennium Approaches
Saturday 21 November 7pm: Part Two – Perestroika
Tuesday 24 November 7pm: Part One – Millennium Approaches
Wednesday 25 November 7pm: Part Two – Perestroika
Thursday 26 November 7pm: Part One – Millennium Approaches
Friday 27 November 7pm: Part Two – Perestroika
Saturday 28 November 1pm: Part One – Millennium Approaches
Saturday 28 November 7pm: Part Two – Perestroika

Director David Gregory commented: "Directing Angels in America is both a challenge and a privilege… it’s like being handed a theatrical universe. Kushner’s writing is vast, poetic, and fiercely political, yet rooted in the most intimate human emotions. To stage it is to wrestle with angels and ghosts, with love and fear, with the very question of what theatre can do. Every scene asks for invention: conjuring visions, collapsing time, making the impossible suddenly real.

"It’s going to be exhilarating to guide actors through this landscape, to discover new layers in characters that feel endlessly alive, and to invite an audience into an experience that promises to be funny, devastating, and transcendent. This isn’t just another play – it’s a once-in-a-lifetime journey for all of us at Sedos and all of our audiences. And directing it feels like being at the helm of something truly extraordinary."

Content warnings: contains strong language, sexual content/partial nudity, violence, references to illness and death, drug/alcohol use, homophobic/racist language, and scenes of supernatual intensity.

Angels in America plays at the Bridewell Theatre from 19-28 November 2026.

Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches
Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika
By Tony Kushner

This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International on behalf of Josef Weinberger Ltd. www.mtishows.co.uk | www.josef-weinberger.com