(828) 526-0173 | [email protected] | Copyright 2024 – All Rights Reserved.
Live via Satellite at Highlands PAC
Written By: Mary Adair Trumbly - Highlands PAC | Issue: 2017/11 - November
On Saturday, November 4, and Sunday, November 5, The National Theatre of London brings its productions of “Angels in America I & II” to the Highlands Performing Arts Center.
It’s America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. Andrew Garfield (“Silence,” “Hacksaw Ridge”) plays Prior Walter along with a cast including Denise Gough (“People, Places and Things”), Nathan Lane (“The Producers”), James McArdle (“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”) and Russell Tovey (“The Pass”).
This new staging of Tony Kushner’s multi-award-winning two-part play is directed by Olivier- and Tony-Award winning director Marianne Elliott (“The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”
and “War Horse”).
“Angels in America” is a unique two-night event, broadcast live in two parts. The two parts are two halves of the same story, so audiences need to see both parts to fully experience the show and see the whole story.
Angels in America I will be screened on Saturday, November 4, at 1:00 P.M. “Angels in America II” will be screened the next day, Sunday, November 5, at 1:00 P.M.
The Met Opera presents the American premiere of Thomas Adès’ “The Exterminating Angel,” inspired by the classic Luis Buñuel film of the same name at 12:55 P.M. Saturday, November 18. Hailed by The New York Times at its 2016 Salzburg Festival premiere as “inventive and audacious … a major event,” “The Exterminating Angel” is a surreal fantasy about a dinner party from which the guests can’t escape. Tom Cairns, who wrote the libretto, directs the new production, and Adès conducts his own adventurous new opera. There will be a pre-opera discussion beginning at 12:30 P.M. led by Beverly Wichman.
Tickets are available at highlandspac.org, at the door, or by calling (828) 526-9047 Highlands Performing Arts Center is located at 507 Chestnut Street.
