I wanted to ask you for the folks out there, what was the genesis of you writing a play about a gay musical theater playwright working as an usher, talking about his life while trying to write a musical about AIDS and among other things. There's just been nothing like it, Michael. Hilton Als: One of the things that is so extraordinary about this show is that we have never seen anything remotely like it on stage or in a book or in a movie. Staff writer Hilton Als talk with Michael R. Usher sings about the terror of the blank page and the terrors of dating and sex and all in terms that are quite frank, which we'll hear in some of the clips played in this interview, just so you're aware. He's a Black queer writer who is writing a musical about a Black queer writer who is writing about a Black queer writer. A Strange Loop is about a man named Usher who also happens to work as an usher. It begins its run on Broadway this month. His musical A Strange Loop won the Pulitzer prize in 2020. Jackson, a 41-year-old composer in playwright. Host: Michael, oh my God, you're on Broadway.
