All the Drama: A Strange Loop, 2020 Winner, Pulitzer Prize for Drama

All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: "A Strange Loop"
2020 Pulitzer winner “A Strange Loop”, by Michael R. Jackson

A Strange Loop Wikipedia page
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Strange_Loop

Michael R. Jackson Wikipedia page
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_R._Jackson

Michael R Jackson website
https://www.thelivingmichaeljackson.com/

“Detroit native, Cass Tech alum Michael R. Jackson wins Pulitzer for off-Broadway musical” by Julie Hinds, The Detroit Free Press
https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/arts/2020/05/11/michael-r-jackson-pulitzer-prize/3096330001/

A Strange Loop script
https://www.concordtheatricals.com/s/95702/a-strange-loop

A Strange Loop score
https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Loop-Selections-Michael-Jackson/dp/1705172903/

A Strange Loop Tiny Desk concert

Michael R. Jackson Has Made Peace with A Strange Loop Closing on Broadway” by Diep Tran, Playbill
https://playbill.com/article/michael-r-jackson-has-made-peace-with-a-strange-loop-closing-on-broadway

Understanding the History and Mystery of Michael R. Jackson, American Masters podcast
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/podcast/understanding-the-history-and-mystery-of-michael-r-jackson/

'A Strange Loop' Creator Michael R. Jackson, Fresh Air
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/18/1112029871/a-strange-loop-creator-michael-r-jackson

A Strange Loop’s Michael R. Jackson Doesn’t Really Care How You React to His Musical” by Brock Colyar, New York Magazine
https://www.thecut.com/2022/05/michael-r-jackson-on-his-musical-a-strange-loop.html

‘A Strange Loop’ writer Michael R. Jackson on the show’s 11 Tony nominations and the importance of new musical theatre” by Gillian Russo, New York Theatre Guide
https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatre-news/news/a-strange-loop-writer-michael-r-jackson-tony-nominations-new-musical-theatre

Real Character: The sources of my storytelling” by Michael R. Jackson, The Yale Review
https://yalereview.org/article/michael-jackson-becoming-playwright-storytelling

Why the Tony-winning author of ‘A Strange Loop’ wants to upend the American musical” by Charles McNulty, The Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-06-06/strange-loop-tony-award-michael-r-jackson-musical-ahmanson

How a Playwright Became One of the Most Incisive Social Critics of Our Time” by Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/michael-r-jackson-criticism-playwright-musicals/677172/

Michael R. Jackson Is Not Usher in “A Strange Loop” by Craig Byrd, Cultural Attaché
https://culturalattache.co/2024/06/13/michael-r-jackson-is-not-usher-in-a-strange-loop/

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Jan Simpson is a theater journalist who writes the blog Broadway& Me and hosts the BroadwayRadio podcasts Stagecraft and All The Drama. She has twice served as a Pulitzer Prize juror.