It’s 1985, and Prior, the descendant of a distinguished American family, has AIDS. (The second is titled “Perestroika.”) We’re in the Manhattan apartment of a young man named Prior Walter (Andrew Garfield). She’s played in the current production by the nimble and intelligent Amanda Lawrence our initial view of her is at the end of “Millennium Approaches,” the first part of the nearly eight-hour, two-part play. Not the one at Bethesda Fountain, in Central Park, who watches over some of the story’s action, but the Angel who speaks. It has taken me years to understand that, while I don’t necessarily identify with a number of the characters in “Angels in America,” Tony Kushner’s brilliant, maddening, and necessary masterwork (now in revival at the Neil Simon, under the direction of Marianne Elliott), I do have deep feelings about the Angel.
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