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It ranks as nothing less than one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century." -John Heilpern, New York Observer

"Angels in America is the finest drama of our time, speaking to us of an entire era of life and death as no other play within memory. “An enormously impressive work of the imagination and intellect, a towering example of what theater stretched to its full potential can achieve.” - Philadelphia Inquirer "A victory for theater, for the transforming power of the imagination to turn devastation into beauty." -John Lahr, New Yorker a searching and radical rethinking of American political drama." -Frank Rich, New York Times A monumental, subversive, altogether remarkable masterwork…Details of specific catastrophes may have changed since this Reagan-era AIDS epic won the Pulitzer and the Tony, but the real cosmic and human obsessions-power, religion, sex, responsibility, the future of the world-are as perilous, yet as falling-down funny, as ever.” -Linda Winer, Newsday In its announcement of these awards, the American Prize hailed Professor Woodruff as “a champion of improvisation, musical and physical, in the operatic medium as a tool for education, creation and performance.Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes includes Part One, Millennium Approaches and Part Two, Perestroika In 2018, he received the Charles Nelson Reilly Prize for stage directing in the American Prize competition, where his productions of The Beggar’s Opera and Hydrogen Jukebox tied for first place. Since his arrival at Lawrence in 2014, Professor Woodruff’s productions have won fourteen national awards and citations. He has also held teaching appointments and directed for The Juilliard School, Oberlin Conservatory, Temple University, the University of Memphis, and the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia. His professional credits include work on productions for New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and Michigan Opera Theatre. The lecturer, Copeland Woodruff, is Associate Professor and Director of Opera Studies at Lawrence. This program, a multidisciplinary introduction to liberal learning, has been a cornerstone of the Lawrence curriculum since 1945. The lecture was designed for students and faculty in the Freshman Studies program. This lecture on Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches was recorded in January 2021.