Watch the Star-Packed Benefit Event The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
The great work continues! A benefit reading of scenes from Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic Angels in America took place on October 8, at 8:30PM ET to benefit amfAR's Fund to Fight COVID-19. The free 60-minute livestream The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America is still exclusively available on Broadway.com's YouTube channel. Playwright Kushner and director Ellie Heyman assembled an all-star cast for the event, including Glenn Close, Paul Dano, Linda Emond, Jeremy O. Harris, Brian Tyree Henry, Nikki M. James, Laura Linney, Vella Lovell, Patti LuPone, S. Epatha Merkerson, Larry Owens, Andrew Rannells, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Lois Smith and Brandon Uranowitz. There were also interstitial appearances from Alan Cumming, Whoopi Goldberg and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Andrew Rannells in "The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America"