Last we wrote about award-winning African American playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney was in May, when we announced that he was teaming up with Barry Jenkins (Medicine For Melancholy) on what was described as a triptych feature about Liberty City that is being produced by Borscht Corp (who were also behind Barry's short film Chorophyl). No word on where that project stands at this time, but, as I learned this morning, the seemingly always-busy McCraney is now set to write and direct a new play that got my attention, because of its content. Specifically, next theater season (2013/2014), South Florida's GableStage, England's Royal...
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