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Thursday, February 06, 2025
Sing Sing's Actors Reunited February 3 to Perform a Play and Mark How Far They've Come
Playbill: On February 3, the cast of the film Sing Sing took it back to where it all began: the stage. In 2005, a group of inmates at Sing Sing Correctional Facility put together and acted in an original play, a time-traveling adventure called Breakin' the Mummy's Code. Their story was then dramatized, with those formerly incarcerated actors starring, in the Oscar-nominated film Sing Sing. On Monday at New York Theatre Workshop, the cast of Sing Sing performed that same play on the stage—to multiple standing ovations.
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