'Moonlight' Writer's Broadway Debut Stars A Queer, Black 'Choir Boy'
Like many teenage dramas. Tarell Alvin McCraney's play is set in a prep school. But this one, populated by African-American boys and infused with spirituals and step routines, is a specific story.
Perhaps you have read a book or seen a play or movie set in a prep school: say, The Catcher in the Rye, or The History Boys, or The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
The playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, who co-wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for the film , has made his Broadway debut with his own take on the setting, called . But instead of the WASP elite, the school in has an all-black student body. The Charles R. Drew Prep
