It’s Feb. 22. One month from today, I will be seeing Angels in America: Millennium Approaches on Broadway. I’m 40 years old, and this show has been in my world for more than half of my life.
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HBO’s 2003 production, with all of its incredible glory (and casting), did a lot to expand the reach of the Pulitzer and Tony-winning work of theater into the broader American public. And it gave me something visual to turn to when I needed this story in my face.
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I got to see Part Two of the off-Broadway production a few years back, and saw both parts of the DC-area production in 2016. It was as powerful an experience in 2016 — more than 20 years after I had come out — as it was when I was closeted in high school.pic.twitter.com/yFtmi9ybTF
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Then there was the Slate oral history of Angels, just such an outstanding piece of work — so much so that the two folks behind it got a book deal.http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/cover_story/2016/06/oral_history_of_tony_kushner_s_play_angels_in_america.html …
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All of which brings us to today, a month before I’ll get to see the incredible Broadway cast, and I’m sitting here with
@parabasis and@dankois’ book: THE WORLD ONLY SPINS FORWARD.pic.twitter.com/OfjdTJiZjT
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It’s also
#tbt — well, it was — so the throwback is imagining the look 16-year-old Chris would’ve had on his face if you told him the authors of this book would ask for his thoughts in 20-some years about Angels and why it is still relevant. (And alongside Nathan Lane!)pic.twitter.com/kyGEFUuraE
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It honestly was such an honor to be asked for my thoughts about Angels in America, a work that has kept me thinking for more than two decades. I am humbled and grateful to be included in this new work, and I cannot wait to read the whole book.

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And, it’s out now — Congrats
@parabasis &@dankois! — so everyone can order and read it themselves:https://www.amazon.com/World-Only-Spins-Forward-America/dp/1635571766 …Show this thread -
The teens are doing a lot this week. As someone more than two decades on from being an overachieving teen, let me just say: You can’t even imagine all that you can do. You can’t even begin to imagine where your life will take you.
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I recommend reading
@DanKois and@parabasis‘s recently released oral history of the play, “The World Only Spins Forward,” if you have not already done so.http://bit.ly/2FngBIo -
Chris is in the book! And is amazing in it!
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I just started reading the other day. I must not be up to his part yet. Thanks for letting me know and working on this great project.
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Thank you so much!
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This story and its themes and its characters are so important. We are hoping to do Kushner justice in November with a community theatre production in Detroit.
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Tony Kushner is our best playwright since Eugene O’Neil
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