How Director Marianne Elliott Wrestled With ‘Angels In America’ (And Tony Kushner)

As the UK National Theatre’s revival of the epic opens on Broadway, Michael Schulman talks to its director – known to US audiences for War Horse and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time about the challenges and joys of staging the play and bringing to the States (and, yes, of dealing with its notoriously difficult famously engaged playwright).