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Slate Culture

The Great Work Begins Edition

Slate Culture

Slate Podcasts

Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Dana Stevens, Dan Kois, and Isaac Butler discuss the revival of Tony Kushner's Angels in America which recently arrived on Broadway, The World Only Spins Forward, the oral history of Angels in America, and the film Love, Simon with Slate's Alex Barasch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.2

I'm Dana Stevens and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest, The Great Work Begins Edition.

0:38.0

It's Wednesday, March 28th, 2018, and on today's show, Angels in America officially returned to Broadway this week to rave reviews.

0:45.0

How does Tony Kushner's 7 and a half hour masterpiece resonate with 2018?

0:50.0

Then we'll talk about The World Only Spins Forward, The oral history of angels in America by Isaac Butler and Dan Coise will have them on to discuss their book and the challenges and responsibilities of writing a book about such a major piece of theater.

1:01.0

And finally, we'll chat about Love Simon, the new film from

1:03.9

Director Greg Berlante about a closeted gay teen and the anonymous

1:07.0

classmate he falls for online. Stephen that Kaff and Julia Turner are both off

1:10.9

this week chasing their museses but I am joined by two

1:13.7

Gabfist all-stars and all-timers, Slates beloved Dan Koyce from Washington.

1:18.4

Hello Dan.

1:19.4

Hello, and here in studio with me in New York, Isaac Butler.

1:23.0

Hello, Dana.

1:24.0

Hey, so glad to have both of you guys.

1:25.6

Okay, so you are, of course, co-authors of the world only spins forward

1:29.4

the ascent of angels in America, which we will be getting to in our second segment, but inevitably we'll be bringing

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