What is special to you about the experience of going to the theater?

I just I love theater.

I mean I've been going to see shows since I was young and it's so it's like almost

that kind of nostalgia but also it's incredibly

entertaining. No show is ever completely the same.

It's so present.

It's so well done. It's so it's professional.

It's an experience.

Just seeing the costumes, the music, the overall production is insane normally.

Just being there and being involved with it, it's a whole experience. They have really made an impact on me and my several

hundreds of thousands of students that have come to the theater. It's like a movie theater

but in person with real people.

I mean we laugh, we cry, you know, it's beautiful,

it's, I don't know, it's just a fantastic immersive experience. It's notes from America. I'm Kai Wright. Welcome to the show.

Brandon Jacobs Jenkins first published his play appropriate in 2012 in his late 20s.

He has since staged it several times, been a Pulitzer Prize finalist for two subsequent plays,

and been awarded a MacArthur Genius Fellowship, among many other notes of a claim.

But appropriate, more than a decade after its debut,

was staged as Brandon's Broadway debut this season.

And later this month, it is up for eight Tony Tony Awards including Best Revival of a play.

The show is about a fraught family reunion.

A group of estranged siblings and their chosen families are forced together when their father dies.

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