When Tony Kushner's "Angels in America: Millennium Approaches" opened on Broadway, in 1993, in a production directed by George C. Wolfe, the play ended with a winged angel crashing into a dying man's bedroom from above, shattering lath and plaster. Subsequent directors, including Mike Nichols, who filmed "Angels" for HBO, have also hewed closely to Kushner's stage directions, which call for unearthly lighting, "a ter…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 06:34AM on October 19, 2015