With Sufjan’s Blessing, Justin Peck And Jackie Sibblies Drury Bring The Illinoise To NYC

How do you take an album like Sufjan Stevens’ Illinois — concerned with the undead, first loves, impending heartbreak, field trips with stepmoms, and John Wayne Gacy — and adapt it into a stage show? For choreographer Justin Peck and playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury, you set the music around a bonfire, turn these characters into ghost stories, and bring them to life through one of the oldest and most expressive art forms: dance. With Illinoise, they adapt the 2005 album into a play fi...

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