Designed by Milton Glaser, this poster announces the Broadway premiere of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, a two-part epic play by Tony Kushner that examines the AIDS crisis, homosexuality, and American society in the 1980s. Through a mix of personal narrative and supernatural allegory, the play critiques the Reagan administration’s inaction and explores themes of identity, religion, and political abandonment. Kushner, who is openly gay, wrote the play amid the AIDS epidemic, channeling his activism into a theatrical work to reflect the crisis’s toll on the gay community. Angels in America premiered on Broadway in 1993 under the direction of George C. Wolfe after earlier productions in San Francisco and Los Angeles. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and multiple Tony Awards, and was widely regarded as representing a turning point in American theater. The play’s candid portrayal of gay life and AIDS drew national acclaim but also sparked protests in some cities, including legal challenges to productions in North Carolina. Milton Glaser is often credited with creating the first international AIDS poster. Commissioned in 1987 by the United Nations and issued in Spanish and English, the poster was distributed internationally and remained the symbol of the epidemic until it was replaced by the now-iconic red ribbon.