Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and I go back a long way. I saw his first New York show down at P.S. 122 right after its director quit during previews and one of the actors published a piece in The Village Voice calling the play "a piece of crap." Jacobs-Jenkins had to rally the remaining cast and direct the show himself, which didn't go so well (click here to read more about that). But four years later in 2014…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:43PM on June 10, 2023