A new adaptation of Claudia Rankine’s poetry collection “Citizen” will headline the Primary Stages 2016-7 season. Ms. Rankine has updated her best-selling work for the stage along with Stephen Sachs, and the production will arrive next January.
“Citizen” is a genre-crossing meditation on race in America, covering subjects from Trayvon Martin to Serena Williams. The book won the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry and was first adapted for the stage by Mr. Sachs at the Fountain Theater in Los Angeles last year.
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