Although it is based on Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play, In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, Jenkins freely admits that McCraney’s story had a very strong personal resonance for him. In particular ...

Years ago when playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney wrote the deeply personal "In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue" as a drama school project, little could he have imagined that it would one day be ...

They went to the same elementary school, but they didn't meet until a few years ago, after Jenkins read McCraney's play, In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue. It's based on the playwright's childhood.

McCraney's "In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue'' is the basis for the acclaimed ... Oyeyemi's "What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours'' won the PEN Open Book Award for "an exceptional book-length work ...

“In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue,” as a starting point. “Tarell’s voice is crucial to the piece,” Jenkins said. It turns out that the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences ...

In what is shaping up to be his breakout picture, writer and director Barry Jenkins has adapted Tarell Alvin McCraney’s never-produced play, “In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue” and woven in his ...

Rich with evocative images and tender exchanges, writer-director Barry Jenkins‘ treatment of Tarrell Alvin McCraney’s play “In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue” is a beautiful drama that ...

The justifiably acclaimed drama, based on Tarell Alvin McCraney's play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, traces one young black man's life as he grows up in Miami and comes to terms with his ...

BASED on the stage play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney, writer-director Barry Jenkins' tender coming-of-age drama finds hope, compassion and salvation in the darkest ...