Cold War Choir Practice

<p><b><i>Dear Santa, for Christmas this year I want a Pound Puppy, a Speak + Spell, and a nuclear radiation detector.</i></b><br><br>It’s twilight in Ronald Reagan’s America and the specter of nuclear war hangs over the country – but rent is still due on the 1st. In <i>Cold War Choir Practice </i>a young girl is embroiled in intrigue when her estranged uncle, a prominent Black conservative, brings his mysteriously ill wife home for the holidays. This darkly comedic play with music is a fugue of Reaganomics, espionage, roller disco, cults... and choir practice.<br><br>A New York Times Critic’s Pick during its 2025 Summerworks run co-produced by Clubbed Thumb and Page 73, Ro Reddick''s breakthrough play is infused with choral music and spiked with espionage. <br><br>Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2026, this edition was published to coincide with the New York run at MCC, co-produced by Page 73 and Clubbed Thumb.</p>