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Riffing on the inner life of Richard Pryor in 'Unspeakable' by Hedy Weiss

Actor-writer-producer James Murray Jackson, Jr. discovered Richard Pryor for the first time when, as a kid, he caught the actor-comedian's hit movies from the early 1980s, "The Toy" and "Stir Crazy," on TV. He was hooked. Now he is playing Pryor in his play, "Unspeakable," opening Oct. 13 at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place. The post Riffing on the inner life of Richard Pryor in ‘Unspeakable’ a…

SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:00PM on October 7, 2015

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