White Girl in Danger

The singular Michael R. Jackson follows up on his Pulitzer Prize–winning intravaganza A Strange Loop with a musical fantasia rooted in soap opera, melodrama and Lifetime women-in-peril pictures. In this metatheatrical dark comedy, "Blackground" players in a soap town called Allwhite maneuver for better plotlines as a killer stalks the streets. Vineyard Theatre and Second Stage coproduce the much-anticipated world premiere, which is directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz (The Skin of Our Teeth) and choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly. Latoya Edwards is at the center of a talented cast of 12 that includes Alyse Alan Louis, Lauren Marcus and Molly Hager as the town's white heroines as well as Kayla Davion, Vincent Jamal Hooper, Tarra Conner Jones and A Strange Loop's James Jackson Jr.