First Nighter: Ivo van Hove's Strong Take on 'Angels in America'

Since Tony Kushner could be considered to know best, why not quote what he says he admired after seeing Ivo van Hove's revival of the playwright's Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music: "It had this feeling of being stripped to its absolute bare bones." I particularly choose Kushner's remark because it jibes neatly with my primary reason for liking what van Hove and his designer Jan Versweyveld have done for Toneelgroep Amsterdam with the best American play o...