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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Michael_RMichael R. Jackson - Wikipedia

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   Michael R. Jackson (born 1981) is an American playwright, composer, and lyricist, best known for his musical A Strange Loop, which won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2022 Tony Award for Best Musical. He is originally from Detroit.

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › A_Strange_LoopA Strange Loop - Wikipedia

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   A Strange Loop is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson, and winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. First produced off-Broadway in 2019, then staged in Washington, D.C. in 2021, A Strange Loop premiered on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre in April 2022.

4. www.pbs.org › wnet › americanmastersUnderstanding the History and Mystery of Michael R. Jackson - PBS

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   Oct 14, 2021 · Listen to the podcast episode about the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, composer and lyricist Michael R. Jackson. He shares the emotional journey behind "Memory Song", the first song he ever wrote and a key scene in his metafictional musical "A Strange Loop".

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     Michael R. Jackson discusses his award-winning play, “A Strange Loop” (Full Stream 6/09)

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     Playwright Michael R. Jackson on Broadway's "A Strange Loop"

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     Michael R Jackson on A Strange Loop - his Pulitzer prize winning queer Black musical

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6. www.pulitzer.org › winners › michael-r-jacksonA Strange Loop , by Michael R. Jackson - Pulitzer

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   Michael R. Jackson’s blistering, momentous new musical follows a young artist at war with a host of demons — not least of which, the punishing thoughts in his own head — in an attempt to capture and understand his own strange loop.

7. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2023/04/10How Michael R. Jackson Remade the American Musical

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   Apr 3, 2023 · “A Strange Loop,” a story about a Black, gay theatre nerd, was a surprise success. In his latest work, “White Girl in Danger,” Jackson reimagines the soap opera, Hilton Als writes.

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8. www.nytimes.com › 2023/01/16 › theaterAs ‘A Strange Loop’ Ends, Its Creator Looks Back on a ...

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   Jan 16, 2023 · Michael R. Jackson discussed his Pulitzer and Tony-winning musical, which closed Sunday after a nine-month Broadway run.

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   What did Michael Jackson do After college?

   • After graduating from college, Jackson held down a million dead-end jobs, including working as an usher at Disney shows, on Broadway, between 2003 and 2008. He lived uptown, with an ever-changing cast of roommates. One day, the cops came to his apartment. “I’m not afraid of cops,” he told me. “My father was a cop.”

   How Michael R. Jackson Remade the American Musical

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   Why did Michael Jackson come to New York?

   • In general.” In 1999, Jackson, who had been greatly encouraged in his writing by three high-school teachers, enrolled in N.Y.U.’s Dramatic Writing program. He attended a lot of theatre. He also found himself trying to navigate New York’s gay scene. “All I knew was Blackness,” he told me. “And then I came to New York. . . .

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   What did Michael Jackson say about theatre?

   • Jackson—who wore a T-shirt with lines through the words “imperialist,” “white supremacist,” “capitalist,” and “patriarchy,” until you got to the name of the late theorist bell hooks—talked about the transformative effect of theatre. “You have to do self-inquiry,” he told me.

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   Who is Michael Paulson?

   • Michael Paulson is the theater reporter. He previously covered religion, and was part of the Boston Globe team whose coverage of clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic Church won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. More about Michael Paulson

   As ‘A Strange Loop’ Ends, Its Creator Looks Back on a ‘Supernova’

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10. www.theatlantic.com › magazine › archiveMichael R. Jackson’s Subversive Vision of the American ...

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    Feb 9, 2024 · I n the summer of 2020, the playwright Michael R. Jackson received an unusual message from a fan of A Strange Loop, his musical about a gay Black man’s path to creative self-awareness through...