Inside Man: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Returns to Broadway With Purpose
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is visibly dismayed. Within seconds of arriving at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space on West 52nd Street, he pronounces the quiet, clean, but definitely small ground-level dressing room where we’ll be speaking—crammed with a large metal rack, a space heater, and what feels like a few too many chairs—“so deadly.”
“This isn’t even, like, giving theater!” he cries, flipping on the mirror lights.