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'Opened my whole world up': inside Oscar-tipped prison theater drama Sing Sing

by Adrian Horton

An acclaimed movie spotlights a program offering a world of creativity to those living in a New York maximum security prison When Sean "Dino" Johnson first heard of a new theater program from another guy in the yard at Sing Sing, a maximum security prison 30 miles north of New York City, he thought it was a joke. "I'm like, 'Theater?' I'm waiting for the punchline," he recalled recently over Zoom. "Theater? This is a…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:05am on July 8, 2024