Reckless Son: Reentry

For ten years, singer-songwriter Matt Butler has been carrying his guitar into jails and prisons across America. Out of these hundreds of shows inside the system came the Reckless Son project, featured on both NPR’s Morning Edition and SPIN’s year-end list. Reentry, a new iteration of Reckless Son, directed by Ellie Heyman, asks the harder questions in the heart of the work: what does forgiveness actually cost? Who do we let return and what is it like to be the one returning? Funny, brutal, and tender — part concert, part confession, part communal reckoning — Reckless Son: Reentry goes in search of the places where compassion has run out. Some come home, some never will, but every one of us has needed, at least once, to be let back in. Get yourself a ticket for Reentry.