We air highlights from our February Get Lit with All of It book club event with author Tananarive Due. We spent the month reading her novel, The Reformatory, which follows a young Black boy named Robert who’s sent to the Gracetown School for Boys and has to learn how to survive such a violent place, as ghosts from the past haunt him. We also feature a conversation and performance by Jake Blount, a singer, fiddler, banjo player, and scholar of old time American music, who was the musical guest.
“Brooklyn Laundry” is a new off-Broadway play written and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley. The story is set in a Brooklyn laundromat and follows the owner Owen (David Zayas), and his conversations with three sisters, one played by Cecily Strong, who frequent the joint. We learn more about the ups and downs of their lives throughout the play. Shanley, Zayas, and Strong join to discuss “Brooklyn Laundry,” which is at New York City Center Stage through March 31.
Tony-winning set designer Beowulf Boritt was dismayed to learn how overwhelmingly white and male his profession has traditionally been… so he decided to start the 1/52 Project, which helps raise money to provide grants to young new design talent. One of those grant recipients was Stefania Bulbarella, who recently made her Broadway debut with “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding.” Boritt and Bulbarella join us to discuss the project, and the field of set design as a whole.
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