Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia On National Themes - Awards and Nominations

Awards and Nominations

Millennium Approaches
  • 1990 Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays (non-competitive grant)
  • 1991 Bay Area Drama Critics Award for Best Play
  • 1991 National Arts Club Joseph Kesselring Award
  • 1992 Evening Standard Award for Best Play
  • 1992 London Drama Critics Circle Award for Best New Play
  • 1993 Drama Desk award for Best Play
  • 1993 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play
  • 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
  • 1993 Tony Award for Best Play
Perestroika
  • 1992 Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays (non-competitive grant)
  • 1992 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best New Play
  • 1994 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play
  • 1994 Tony Award for Best Play

The play merited inclusion as the very last item in Harold Bloom's controversial list of what he considered to be the most important works of literature, The Western Canon (1994).

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