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"Angels in America" by Tony Kushner at Kansas City Repertory Theatre in Kansas City, Mo. Pictured: Jennifer Engstrom and Seamus Mulcahy. (Photo by Don Ipock.)
What does the name America mean to these plays? Grandeur, grift, grief, gore, and more.
By American Theatre Editors
“Angels in America” by Tony Kushner at Kansas City Repertory Theatre in Kansas City, Mo. Pictured: Jennifer Engstrom and Seamus Mulcahy. (Photo by Don Ipock.)
Reggie Montgomery and Michael Potts in Suzan-Lori Parks’s “The America Play” at Yale Repertory Theatre in 1993, a co-production with New York’s Public Theater.
“American Buffalo” by David Mamet, at Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company in Atlanta. Pictured: G Valmont Thomas and Neal Ghant.
“American Song” by Joanna Murray-Smith, at Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Pictured: James DeVita. (Photo by Michael Brosilow)
“American Idiot” by Billie Joe Armstrong, Michael Mayer, and Green Day, at the Hypocrites Theatre in Chicago. Pictured: Malic White and cast. (Photo by Evan Hanover)
René Millán in “American Night: The Ballad of Juan José,” by Richard Montoya and Culture Clash, by at Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2010. (Photo by Jenny Graham)
From left, Sarah Marshall, Jessica Frances Dukes, Tim Getman and Thomas Keegan in Woolly Mammoth Theatre’s “Zombie: The American” by Robert O’Hara. (Photo by Stan Barouh)
“An American Worker” by Tom Attea and Arthur Abrams, at Theatre for a New City in New York City. Pictured: Patti DeMatteo and Elijah Black.
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