Get the latest gossip
Bob the Drag Queen Doesn’t Play About Harriet Tubman
His debut novel imagines the abolitionist as a modern hip-hop artist, and he’s already writing a stage adaptation with a dream cast in mind.
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert, out March 25, is a 240-page answer to a question Bob the Drag Queen can’t stop thinking about; the debut author, who uses he/him and she/her pronouns, is already working on a stage adaptation. Tubman plans to continue her abolitionist work by reaching the masses with a hip-hop album that reflects on freedom, so she enlists the help of Darnell, a Black gay Grammy-winning producer who has taken a step back from the industry. I’ve always said that this current season of the presidency — if I would have written this as a TV show in the ’90s, I feel like the producers would have got back to me and said, “Come on, no one’s going to believe this.” Obviously, if we don’t learn from the past, we’re doomed to repeat it.
Or read this on VULTURE
