Reach deep....Two tickets to Sontag: Reborn at New York Theatre Workshop.Adapted from the first volume of Susan Sontag’s journals written between 1947 and 1963 by performer Moe Angelos, Sontag: Reborn is a tender look at the prolific essayist before she was a world-renowned author and activist. As the young Sontag wrestles with her emerging confidence and innate insecurity, her journey to womanhood and notoriety is as stilted by frailty and doubt as it is driven by determination and curiosity. The refuge of her diary is integral to her development as a writer as well as her personal growth and maturity. Sontag says herself, “In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could in person. I create myself."

Directed by Marianne Weems and using the Builders' signature synthesis of poetic video and sound, this tightly-crafted story of self-discovery and sexual identity is both exuberant and intimate, exploring the private life, loves and idiosyncrasies of the iconic intellectual. Sontag: Reborn reveals, through her own words, that before there was Sontag, there was Susan.