Further casting announced for Angels in America at the National Theatre in 2017

Further casting announced for the acclaimed play.

The National Theatre have today announced full casting for their upcoming production of Tony Kushner's landmark work Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes which runs at the Lyttelton Theatre from 11 April 2017, with an official opening on 4 May 2017.

The full cast will include Stuart Angell, Susan Brown, Laura Caldow, Andrew Garfield, Denise Gough, Nathan Lane, Amanda Lawrence, James McArdle, Becky Namgauds, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Russell Tovey, Stan West and Lewis Wilkins.

he production will be directed by Olivier and Tony award-winner Marianne Elliott and designed by Ian MacNeil, with costume by Nicky Gillibrand, lighting by Paule Constable, choreography by Robby Graham, music by Adrian Sutton, sound by Ian Dickinson, puppetry co-designer and director Finn Caldwell, with puppetry co-designer Nick Barnes, illusions by Chris Fisher and aerial direction by Gwen Hales.

"America in the mid-1980s. 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."

Millennium Approaches, the first of the two plays which form Angels in America, received its British premiere directed by Declan Donnellan's at the NT's Cottesloe Theatre in 1992, and was joined by Perestroika in a double-bill the following year. 2017 marks the 25th anniversary of the shows.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tony Kushner said of the news: "25 years ago, Richard Eyre and the National Theatre launched Angels in America with Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod's brilliant production. I'm thrilled that Angels is returning there. And of course, I'm delighted that the production features a cast so fantastic I wouldn't dare dream it up, directed by the ever-astonishing Marianne Elliott!"

Public booking for Angels in America will open at 8.30am on Friday 20 January 2017.