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Adrien Brody, Tessa Thompson and the Truth Behind ‘The Fear of 13’

by Sarah Lyall, Thea Traff

“The Fear of 13,” about a man who spent two decades on death row for a murder he didn’t commit, is a story that the playwright says she “couldn’t shake.”

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 3:55pm on April 21, 2026