A Strange Loop premieres.

The show debuts at Playwrights Horizons with additional funding from Page 73, another Off Broadway producer. The reactions are rhapsodic. After the run,

Whitman takes Jackson and Brackett out to dinner, where she pops the question every playwright dreams of hearing: “Do we want to try for Broadway?” You already know Jackson’s answer. Unfortunately, there are no Broadway theaters available in 2020, so Whitman decides to take

A Strange Loop out of town for another run with plans for Broadway in 2021. Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C.—now run by Goyanes, the early supporter of Jackson’s original version at Ars Nova—agrees to produce it in fall 2020. Of course, covid will disrupt all theater plans in the U.S. (the show is delayed at Woolly until November 2021); still, the buzz for A Strange Loop intensifies. It wins several major New York theater awards in a year with no Tonys. And then the 2020 Pulitzer for Drama.