New YorkTwenty-five years after it opened on Broadway, Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America” is back, this time in the U.S. transfer of a British production. If you’ve followed his career at all closely, you’ll know that Mr. Lane is no mere musical-comedy clown. Unlike his predecessors, Mr. Lane plays this scene not with explosive ferocity ( Ron Leibman ) or cold-eyed control ( Al Pacino ) but with an unexpected undertone: fear. Back then, Roy Cohn was in every way a man of the moment. Nathan Lane as Roy Cohn Photo: Brinkhoff & MögenburgThis is what Ms. Elliott has done, though not always to good effect.

Source: Wall Street Journal March 26, 2018 00:22 UTC