Colman Domingo leads A24’s prison theater group

Colman Domingo in the movie “Sing Sing”

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Colman Domingo uses the performing arts to connect with fellow prisoners in the first trailer for the A24 drama He sang, he sang.

The film, directed by Greg Koedar, is scheduled to hit theaters in July after premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival last year. He sang, he sang It focuses on the real-life Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) program that allows inmates at New York’s Sing Sing Sing Correctional Institution to produce and star in their own theatrical projects. The film stars Domingo and Paul Raci alongside a cast made up mostly of formerly incarcerated actors, many of whom were previously involved with the RTA.

He sang, he sang The film follows the real-life friendship between inmates John “Devine G” Whitfield (Domingo) and Clarence “God Eye” McClane, who plays him, as the group works to produce an original production titled Break the mummy code. The film is based on author John H. Richardson’s 2005 novel Respected The essay “The Sing Sing Follies” and the theatrical production of Break the mummy codeWhich was written by the program’s theater director Brent Boyle and performed at Sing Sing in 2005.

“This program was created to help people get more in touch with their feelings and really get some rehab,” Domingo says of RTA in the trailer. “And it turned into something I don’t know, great.”

Kuidar directed from a script he co-wrote alongside Clint Bentley, and Whitfield and MacLean are credited for their work on the story. Kuidar, Bentley and Monique Walton serve as producers.

In her review of Hollywood ReporterCritic Lovia Jarecki wrote that the film’s “sensitive approach to portraying the lives of its characters makes it an urgent document of our time.”

During an interview with THR Before TIFF, Domingo – Netflix’s current Oscar nominee Rustin Who is set to play patriarch Joe Jackson in Lionsgate’s 2025 Michael Jackson biopic – credited He sang, he sang co-stars for helping his performance be “the most open and raw ever”. You can’t lie. “You can’t lie with these guys.”