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    'The Secret Life Of Bees' Takes On A Second Life As Musical Theater

    Sue Monk Kidd's bestselling novel tells the story of a white girl taken in by a family of black beekeepers. The premise posed a welcome challenge for black Pulitzer-winning playwright Lynn Nottage.
    by Jeff Lunden Jul 13, 2019 3 minutes
    LaChanze (left) and Elizabeth Teeter star in the Atlantic Theater Company's off-Broadway production of the musical adaptation of <em>The Secret Life of Bees.</em>

    When two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage was approached about writing the script for a musical version of The Secret Life of Bees, she said yes. But she knew it wasn't going to be easy adapting a novel told in the first person — by a young white girl.

    We were very hyper-aware that we didn't want to create a tale which it was just about a young white woman entering into

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