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The sweeping Broadway musical, directed by Moisés Kaufman, follows the racially charged 1863 New York draft riots, which left hundreds dead and entire populations of Black people displaced in its aftermath.
The Paradise Square of the title is a saloon and a brothel. It is owned by a Black woman named Nelly O’Brien and her Irish husband Willie. It is located in the Five Points district of Manhattan, where Black people and immigrant Irish coexist and mingle seamlessly during the Civil War riots.