Scribe Lynn Nottage on the 'Delicious Challenge' of Bringing Michael Jackson to Broadway With MJ
From the steel factory workers of Sweat to the lonesome lingerie seamstress at the center of Intimate Apparel, playwright Lynn Nottage has a gift for sussing out a universal humanity in her subjects. While working on the book for the Broadway blockbuster MJ, Nottage sought to find the heart behind one of pop culture’s great enigmas, Michael Jackson. The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning scribe talked to Broadway.com…