SEP 27—OCT 27 @ marin shakes

ANGELS IN AMERICA
PARTS I & II

by Tony Kushner
directed by Michael Socrates Moran

*Performed at Marin Shakes
in San Rafael, CA

New York City, 1985. Amid the AIDS crisis, two couples struggle to navigate their relationships, families, careers, illness, and dreams. As the lives of Prior, Louis, Joe and Harper unfold, so do questions of cosmic justice.

In Tony Kushner’s multi-award-winning American epic, each person is confronted with truths they have struggled to face—about themselves, about one another, and about the world at large—and the painful, transformative power of those realities.

As ghosts of historical figures mingle with contemporary prophets and timeless angels, the power of Kushner’s narrative reverberates into the perils of the present, as America barrels toward another historic election.

As humans—those with the power to change and create—Kushner’s timeless drama offers much-needed hope for our future—and an opportunity to re-engage with the “Great Work” before us.

REVIEWS

HIGHEST RATING!
"To attend Oakland Theater Project’s Angels in America: Part 1: Millennium Approaches is to witness a 33-year-old work becoming a classic in real time... the overwhelming feeling watching the show... is that this play is about us, right now."
San Francisco Chronicle

PaRt 1 - tickets

Part 2 - Tickets

performanceS

PART 1: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES

SEP 27–OCT 26
THU / FRI / SAT - 7 PM
SUN - 2 PM

Previews: Fri 9/27 & Sat 9/28 - 7 p.m.
Opening Night: Sun 9/29 - 2 p.m

PART 2: PERESTROIKA

OCT 11–27
THU / FRI / SAT - 7 PM
SUN - 2 PM

Previews: Fri 10/11 & Sat 10/12 - 7 p.m.
Opening Night: Sun 10/13 - 2 p.m

*Parts I and II will play back-to-back on two Saturdays: October 19 and October 26.

PRIORITY TICKET
(Reserved seating)
$60

GENERAL ADMISSION TICKET
(Seating assigned upon arrival)
$35

PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN TICKET
(Or any amount at the door — contact box office for availability)
$10 / $20

Please note: Online ticket sales close 2 hours before the start of each performance. Tickets may be purchased at the door — subject to availability.

Questions? Contact the Box Office at 510.646.1126 or boxoffice@oaklandtheaterproject.org

LOCATION

Angels in America, Parts I & II will be presented by Marin Shakespeare Company in their new 165-seat indoor theater.

Address: 514 Fourth Street,
San Rafael, CA 94901

Driving time: ~25 minutes from Oakland

IN THE MEDIA

Angels in America has been included in the Fall Theater Picks from KQED and the San Francisco Chronicle!

“For this interpretation of one of theater’s greatest achievements, Tony Kushner’s two-part opus Angels in America, Oakland Theater Project goes on the road to San Rafael at Marin Shakespeare Company’s new indoor space. Kushner is not known for writing pieces that are slim, and over two plays, Angels easily surpasses seven hours. But what exists within those hours is incredibly powerful, raw and utterly thrilling.”
— David John Chávez, KQED

“When the ripe imaginations at Oakland Theater Project take on a classic, they seem to reincarnate it as a piping hot script fresh out of the oven... Now the 12-year-old company essays Tony Kushner’s two-part epic, which is somehow about, among other things, HIV/AIDS, Antarctica, Mormonism, Judaism, pill-popping and Ethel Rosenberg. With lyricism, wit, literal flights of angels and direction by Michael Socrates Moran, it sweeps from ancestors of decades and centuries past to the Reagan-era politics that still frame much of our current discourse. These characters’ story is all of ours, and to revisit the script is to be imbued with one of its most famous phrases: ‘more life.’”
— Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle

Oakland Theater Project stages classic ‘Angels in America’ in Marin Shakes’ theater by Lou Fancher, Bay City News

“[Angels in America] feels contemporary, specifically American, impossible, but also hopeful. I feel bigger when I’m in it. It makes me feel more alive to the moment we’re in now.” – Michael Socrates Moran, Director