I wrote about family while reflecting on Will Arbery’s gorgeous new play Corsicana, now playing at Playwrights Horizons. Go see Will and company’s beautiful work through July 17, and read my essay for Playwrights’ Almanac at playwrightshorizons.org. * * * [image: Playwrights Horizons website - white background, black border, red accents - with the opening paragraph of Ryan’s essay “Full Brothers/Full Sister.” Text is as follows.] Essay Almanac, Volume #02 Corsicana Full Brothers / Full Sister Ryan J. Haddad June 30, 2022 The night Nana died, my brother, Bobby, called me from the car on his way home from work. I was sitting in our parents’ living room, alternating between silence and tears. Her death was not sudden—she’d been sick for almost a year and was nearing 90. But she had been a source of joy and light and faith and infinite love for our whole family. (continue at playwrightshorizons.org)