Invictus Theatre Company has announced two special talkbacks following Sunday matinee performances of ANGELS IN AMERICA PART TWO: PERESTROIKA. ANGELS IN AMERICA playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner will participate virtually in a talkback moderated by CHICAGO TRIBUNE Chief Theatre Critic Chris Jones following the 12 pm Sunday July 20 performance. Chicago media leader and historian of the city’s LGBTQ+ community Tracy Baim will be present on July 13 for an in-person talkback. Craig Duff, Emmy Award–winning video journalist, documentary filmmaker, and actor, will moderate the discussion with Baim. The talkbacks are free and open to the general public, if space is available after audience members of the day’s performance are seated. Please visit www.invictustheatreco.com/kushner for additional information, to purchase tickets to the performance and to be guaranteed a seat at the Kushner talkback.
Tony Kushner is the Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, and Emmy Award–winning playwright and screenwriter of the groundbreaking two-part epic ANGELS IN AMERICA. In 2003, he wrote the lyrics and book to the musical CAROLINE, OR CHANGE which earned Kushner Tony Award nominations for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score. He has collaborated with director Steven Spielberg on the films MUNICH (2005), LINCOLN (2012), WEST SIDE STORY (2021), and THE FABELMANS (2022), which earned him four Academy Award nominations.
The founder of WINDY CITY TIMES and former Publisher of the CHICAGO READER, Tracy Baim is also the author of the book OUT AND PROUD IN CHICAGO: A HISTORY OF THE CITY’S GAY COMMUNITY and author or co-author of several other books chronicling LGBTQ community figures and historical movements. A nationally recognized journalist and author, Baim has been a driving force for LGBTQ+ visibility in media for over three decades. The conversation will be moderated by Craig Duff, Emmy Award–winning video journalist, documentary filmmaker, and actor. The evening benefits Howard Brown Health, with books available for purchase.
Tony Kushner (left) and Tracy Baim (right)
Set in New York City in the mid-1980s as the AIDS epidemic was becoming widespread, ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART ONE: MILLENNIUN APPROACHES and PART TWO: PERESTROIKA each won, in different years, the Tony Award for Best Play. Additionally, MILLENNIUM APPROACHES won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Invictus Artistic Director Charles Askenaizer is directing. The two parts of the drama are being performed in repertory through September 7, 2025. Tickets for both parts of ANGELS IN AMERICA are on sale now at www.invictustheatreco.com/angels.
ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART ONE: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES
and
ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART TWO: PERESTROIKA
by Tony Kushner
directed by Charles Askenaizer
June 13 – September 7, 2025
Parts One and Two are running in repertory.
PART ONE: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES will play Fridays at 7 p.m., Saturdays at 12 p.m., alternate Mondays at 7 p.m. starting Monday June 30; and Sunday July 6 at 12 p.m., and Thursdays August 28 and September 4 @ 7 p.m. Final performance Saturday, September 6 at 12 p.m.
PART TWO: PERESTROIKA will play Saturdays at 7 p.m., Sundays at 12 p.m., alternate Mondays at 7 p.m. starting Monday July 7; Thursday, July 3 and Friday, August 29 at 7 p.m.; and Friday, September 5 at 7 p.m. Final performance Sunday September 7 at 12 p.m.
There are no performances on June 29, July 4 or 5, or on August 30, 31 or September 1
Performances at Windy City Playhouse, 3014 W. Irving Park Road, Chicago
Ticket prices: Previews $25. Monday $25. Friday through Sunday $38. Multi-show subscription packages available.
www.invictustheatreco.com
Tony Kushner’s two-part, Pulitzer Prize-winning expansive, poetic, and politically charged look at the ‘80s in America. 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. A single cast will perform both parts of Kushner’s epic play in repertory, allowing audiences to experience the characters’ entire stories over a single day or successive days.
ABOUT INVICTUS THEATRE COMPANY
At Invictus Theatre Company, our mission is to create theatre that promotes a better understanding of language: its poetry, its rhythm, its resonance; through diverse works by diverse artists. We respect the power of heightened language: spoken, written, sung; to express the breadth of the human condition. We work to harness the power of language: to promote diversity, to engender respect, to foster collaboration; and to empower our communities to share their voices.
Invictus Theatre Company incorporated in January 2017 and received its 501(c)(3) nonprofit status in February 2017. A diverse group of Chicago actors and directors founded Invictus with the vision to empower their communities through theatrical productions of heightened language. We are committed to the idea that our productions should reflect the communities we represent, and, to that end, we are committed to non-discriminatory hiring practices. In working with local artists, designers, and production teams, Invictus Theatre Company does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, nationality, citizenship, religion, or any other status protected by law.
ANGELS IN AMERICA is presented in partnership with Timothy Sherck. Invictus Theatre Company’s 2025 Season is generously supported by Michael and Mona Heath of The Heath Fund, The Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, and the Illinois Arts Council.