Angel wings. Pine trees. Nina Simone. These are the ingredients of a masterpiece.
This episode discusses drug use, sex, homophobia, and contains bleeped explicit language. Sensitive listeners, please be advised.
Thank you to Joseph Magee, Justin Adams, Jennifer Ann Handy, and the rest of the cast and crew of Angels in America Kilgore College, 1999.
BIG love and thanks to Raymond Caldwell, who just retired after 54 years of teaching theater.
This story was based on the Texas Monthly magazine article “When ‘Angels in America’ Came to East Texas” by Wes Ferguson.
Special thanks also to the Texas Shakespeare Festival, Matthew Simpson, Helena de Groot, Kyle Henry, Katie Song and Colin Hyer.
Produced by John Fecile, original score by Renzo Gorrio
Artwork by Teo Ducot
Season 11 – Episode 36