Don’t forget Belize

Richard Stayton’s article on “Angels in America” took me back to the tremendous weekend in Boston when I was fortunate enough to see Parts I and II back to back. Seven glorious hours of the most thought-provoking theater. Period.

As a Belizean American and the daughter of one of the first social workers in Los Angeles to comfort AIDS patients and their families in the late ‘70s when it was still known as Kaposi’s Sarcoma, I was quite sad to see that in Stayton’s article he neglected to mention the character Belize. His oversight is troubling because the originator of the part, Jeffrey Wright, is the only original cast member who is returning for the television production and one of two who actually went on the road to bring this marvelous work to those unable to travel to New York to see it. Mr. Wright won the Tony for featured actor for the role of Belize in the production of “Angels in America: Perestroika” and for that alone deserves greater mention than the one photo for the article.

Pauline C.E. Bennett

Los Angeles