1. Angels in America (1993–94)
Everything about Tony Kushner's Millennium Approaches and Perestroika seems enormous: the seven-hour running time; the theme of AIDS and politics in the '80s; even the subtitle, ''A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.'' Yet as he travels to exotic locales (Antarctica! Brooklyn!) and blurs fact and fiction — McCarthyite Roy Cohn coexists with a pill-popping Mormon and her homosexual husband — Kushner captures a disintegrating marriage and a story of survival. Angels may be massive, but it's also breathtakingly intimate.
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