Theatre Review: In Tarell McCraney’s ‘Choir Boy,’ Spirituals Are Solace

THE NEW YORK TIMES 
By Charles Isherwood

Courtesy of Manhattan Theatres Club

NEW YORK---The sweet harmonies of classic spirituals unite the sometimes fractious voices of the young men in “Choir Boy,” the ambitious new play by Tarell Alvin McCraney that opened on Tuesday night at City Center in a lively Manhattan Theater Club production. The boys of the Charles R. Drew Prep School may rarely agree on anything — not even the true value of the songs themselves — but when they raise their voices in unison, they offer a glimpse of a world in which the cruelty that can divide and destroy is dissolved in a graceful, embracing order. [link]