How "The Comeuppance" Let Me Down
Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and I go back a long way. I saw his first New York show down at P.S. 122 right after its director quit during previews and one of the actors published a piece in The Village Voice calling the play "a piece of crap." Jacobs-Jenkins had to rally the remaining cast and direct the show himself, which didn't go so well (click here to read more about that). But four years later in 2014…