Café Humanities

Columbia drama professor Jean E. Howard discusses Angels in America, Tony Kushner’s seminal and surreal play about gay culture and AIDS in the late 1990s, as part of the university’s Café Humanities series, in which students, faculty and interested Ivy-League outsiders gather to debate a given topic. Hear Howard argue that the histories of American Mormons and Jews are also central to the plot—then get ready to discuss.