It’s twilight in Ronald Reagan’s America, and the specter of nuclear war hangs over the country - but rent is still due on the first of the month. A young girl is embroiled in intrigue when her estranged uncle, a prominent Black conservative, brings his mysteriously ill, white wife home for the holidays and forces long-simmering tensions within the family to boil.
Winner of the 2026 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Cold War Choir Practice is an explosion of roller disco, Reaganomics, espionage, and cults - underscored by the Seedlings of Peace Children’s Chorus.
