Awaiting the latest ‘Angels’

MARCH 25, Nathan Lane and Andrew Garfield reopen Tony Kushner’s award winner “Angels in America.” Set in Reagan’s ’80s, the height of our AIDS crisis, it reopens in Trump time, the height of our sexual-harassment crisis. Jordan Roth, Jujamcyn’s medicine man behind the production: “I started college when this originally opened. I wanted to be in show business. Actor or writer. “This was Kushner’s approach to a problem, which over time turned into a true prophecy. The scenario evolved, little changes, from its origin. I remember thinking then: ‘Please don’t let this end.’ “I think the same now. Politically and personally, there are so many ways for each of us. For all our struggles sexually, who’s ever going to let this end? “This story’s ripped out of our hearts. What we need right now on Broadway. The condition of our world is that — in terms of claiming our own sexual power — theater can be about where we are now.

“Theater is for taking our pain, validating by ‘show and tell’ what could be a way forward. It’s who gets to tell their story. Expand the canvas.

Responsibility is to get those voices on our stages so more people can tell their stories.

“There’s a place for happy musicals and high kicking. Theater means all of that. It’s a big Broadway. But there’s enough for high joy, high pain and high truth.”

And those many other stories this country wants to tell?

“Let’s say there may be works for others with experiences to tell. Stay tuned.”

The run is 18 weeks. Per its original incarnation, the production’s in two parts. See both together, matinee and evening, or Part 1 then Part 2 on a successive night — starting at $45 per performance.