Here, Queer and Singing Out on Broadway: Tarell Alvin McCraney and Jeremy Pope Talk Choir Boy
With rousing gospel songs and a talented cast of newcomers, the acclaimed new play Choir Boy tells of the students in a prep school struggling with the institution’s deep roots in tradition. For playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney—making his Broadway debut with the show—the story was born out of his relationship with his own community of Liberty City in Miami, Florida, which was also the setting of his…