A playwright, composer and lyricist, Jackson made waves throughout the theater world for A Strange Loop and its riveting depiction of a gay Black man’s desire to free himself from his innermost thoughts.

In songs like “Periodically” and “AIDS Is God’s Punishment,” the Broadway musical explores the fraught connection between religion and queerness.

This year, Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning A Strange Loop became the most Tony-nominated production of the season.

The producers and director of A Strange Loop, the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, have no plans to bring the curtain down for good anytime soon.

On the evening last June when Michael R. Jackson’s A Strange Loop won Best Musical at the Tonys, Broadway fans were hardly surprised.

“By the time we got to Broadway, I’d fine-tuned him. This person is in my body—he’s real to me, but he’s also not me. I’m able to take him off and go home and be Jaquel.”

Even with a Pulitzer Prize and two Tonys, the brilliant mind behind A Strange Loop is nowhere near ready to slow down.

When he put “Broadway” in a song lyric, Michael R. Jackson was unwittingly naming the destination, and the destiny, for his unapologetically Black and queer musical, which won the Best Musical Tony last night.

The actor looked to Andre Leon Talley for inspiration.

Through its lengthy development process, A Strange Loop underwent countless loop the loops of revisions, workshops, and more revisions. Here, its key players detail the dizzying path to production — and the sense of déjà vu that drove its success.

Sandy Kenyon: “A Strange Loop demonstrates how each of us can overcome self-doubt and shame to silence those negative voices in our heads, and then go on to amaze ourselves with what we can achieve.”

The actor has become the first openly trans performer to receive a Tony nomination for her role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Strange Loop.

The two discuss the Tony-nominated musical and their complicated relationship with Tyler Perry.

Billy Porter writes how the creator of A Strange Loop inspired him.

The writer sat down with Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek at the Time Hotel to talk about the musical’s 20-year journey to Broadway and more.

L Morgan Lee made theater history on Monday, becoming the first openly transgender performer to be nominated for a Tony Award.

The ensemble cast of Michael R. Jackson’s meta musical share their experiences in the new Broadway musical.

With his bravura meta-musical A Strange Loop, the playwright is showing Broadway audiences something they have never seen before.

Jaquel Spivey graduated from college last May. Now he’s making his Broadway debut as the star of Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, A Strange Loop.

L Morgan Lee, Jason Veasey, John-Michael Lyles, Antwayn Hopper, and John-Andrew Morrison gave Broadway Direct their own thoughts about working on A Strange Loop.

The young, gay, Black creator of the musical A Strange Loop talks about his process, Liz Phair, soap operas, and just about everything else.

For GQ’s Give It Up series, playwright and composer Michael R. Jackson talks about the importance of Musical Theatre Factory, the organization devoted to underrepresented voices that first produced his Pulitzer Prize–winning musical A Strange Loop.