SING SING

Director: Greg Kwedar
Starring: Colman Domingo, Paul Raci, Clarence Maclin, Sean San Jose, Mosi Eagle, David Giraudy, Patrick Griffin, James Williams

In just under a year, Colman Domingo has delivered three stirring performances with Rustin, The Color Purple and now Sing Sing that prove he’s one of the great actors of our time. In Sing Sing, Domingo plays, G, a man wrongly convicted of murder who spends his life at Sing Sing correctional facility in the maximum-security area. He’s a quiet, well-mannered incarcerated man who spends his time steering the RTA program. RTA is the Rehabilitation Through the Arts program where he and other some of the other men who are incarcerated dip into their creative sides to put on plays. After a successful production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the group writes a new play that’s a little hodge podge of everything from gladiators to Hamlet to Freddy Krueger to get all their ideas into one show. The film follows the members of group in their attempt to learn their lines, deal with their prison sentences, work on their clemency trials, and showcase the power that theater has on their well-being. The film also stars Sound of Metal actor Paul Raci as Brent Buell, a theater director and playwright who helps the men with their new play. In select theaters and will open wide in August

Here’s my review