In 2005, an article called The Sing Sing Follies appeared in Esquire. It was about Rehabilitation Through the Arts (R.T.A.), an organization that was founded in 1996 at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, in Ossining, New York. Still active today, R.T.A. uses theater as a means to foster the development of life skills in incarcerated populations. That article is the basis of A24’s film Sing Sing. Alongside Academy Award-nominated actors Colman Domingo and Paul Raci, Clarence Maclin—a former Sing Sing inmate and one of R.T.A.’s early members—stars in the movie, playing a character based on himself. He appears as a tough prisoner who needs convincing to join the theater group, then discovers a talent for acting and an affinity for Shakespeare. Sing Sing succeeds as a dramatic narrative while exploring the social and personal pressures of imprisonment. —Jack Sullivan