Facing Up to Some Hard Truths About "How Shakespeare Saved My Life" & "In Honor of Jean-Michel Basquiat" by Jan Simpson

Toward the beginning of his solo show How Shakespeare Saved My Life, Jacob Ming-Trent talks movingly about how his father, a drug addict, left the family and his son adrift until the 12-year-old stumbled into a Shakespeare class and discovered that the Bard’s words could provide the ballast he needed and help him shape the rest of his life and career.  It’s a heartwarming story and it reminded me of one that Ro…

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