Angels in America Off-Broadway Revival Gets Six-Week Extension

The first preview is almost two months away, but Signature Theatre Company has already announced a six-week extension of its off-Broadway revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. The production, which begins on September 14 at the Peter Norton Space and opens on October 28, will now run through January 30, 2011, rather than the previously announced closing date of December 19. Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, the two parts of Angels in America, will alternate in repertory from the start of performances. Michael Greif directs this eagerly awaited revival.

Angels in America will feature previously announced stars Robin Bartlett as Hannah Pitt, Christian Borle as Prior Walter, Bill Heck as Joe Pitt, Zoe Kazan as Harper Pitt, Billy Porter as Belize, Zachary Quinto as Louis Ironson, Robin Weigert as The Angel and Frank Wood as Roy Cohn.

Signature’s revival of Angels in America is part of the theater’s 20th anniversary series celebrating the works of Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winner Kushner. Also on tap are the New York premiere of The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures (a co-production with the Public Theater, also directed by Michael Greif) and Kushner’s adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s The Illusion (directed by Michael Mayer).