Most of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s plays — such as the exquisite “The Brother/Sister Plays” — are poetic, passionate dramas wherein freewheeling symbolism dances on a lush, metaphoric landscape. But ...

Saturated in hormones and harmonies, Shotgun Players' production of "Choir Boy," is a bracing entertainment, as endearing, self-serious, and gloriously florid as the blossoming minds of the teenage ...

Playwright Tarell Alin McCraney once again delves into the perspectives of young gay Black characters in Shotgun’s season opener Choir Boy. McCraney’s semi-autobiographical play In Moonlight Black ...

Finding your place in the world as an adolescent male is not easy. Finding your place in the world as a semi-closeted gay adolescent at a prep school for Black boys is even trickier. That is the theme ...

“Choir Boy” is a drama so infused with emotion that it can’t help breaking into song. That’s usually the definition of a musical, but in fact this is very much a play that happens to be overwhelmed by ...

Coming of age is hard, as anyone who has been through adolescence can attest, and that experience informs the Tony-winning "Choir Boy," Tarell Alvin McCraney's portrait of African American boys at the ...

BOY by Shotgun Players. Photo by Ben Krantz. Words seem like such an ordinary way to express such an extraordinary experience like CHOIR BOY by Shotgun Players. With a powerful story, soulful music, ...