Contains ten essays that provide critical perspectives on the work of American dramatist Tony Kushner.

Communism is dead: long live the king! / Mark Steyn -- Ambivalence, utopia, and a queer sort of materialism: how Angels in America reconstructs the nation / David Savran -- Angels in America: Tony Kushner's theses on the philosophy of history / Charles McNulty -- Notes on Angels in America as American epic theater / Janelle Reinelt -- Alla, Angli, and Angels in America / Allen J. Frantzen -- Angels, monsters, and Jews: intersections of Queer and Jewish identity in Kushner's Angels in America / Jonathan Freedman -- Angels in America as medieval mystery / Benilde Montgomery -- The progress of death in the land of pure delight: Hydriotaphia, or The death of Dr. Browne / James Fisher -- A prophet in his time: premonition and reality in Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul / James Reston Jr. -- Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul: staging history in a post-colonial world / Framji Minwalla.