How long does it take to read Angels in America, Part One?
Millennium Approaches
Angels in America, Part One by Tony Kushner takes about 2 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 16 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1992. 124 pages, about 34,100 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Winner of the 1993 Tony Award for Best Play. In the first part of Tony Kushner's epic, set in 1980's New York City, a gay man is abandoned by his lover when he contracts the AIDS virus, and a closeted Mormon lawyer's marriage to his pill-popping wife stalls. Other characters include the infamous McCarthy-ite lawyer Roy Cohn, Ethel Rosenberg, a former drag queen who works as a nurse, and an angel.
Subjects: LGBTQ HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ plays, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, Drama, Gay men
