When a white teacher is killed in a black neighbourhood, four journalists race to get the headline – at any cost. But as shocking new evidence pulls them into the dark heart of the case, they are each forced to confront their version of the truth, and what they're prepared to risk in order to tell it.

Gripping and adrenaline-fuelled, Tracey Scott Wilson's newsroom thriller explores the slippery nature of truth, and the recklessness of ambition.

The Story was first performed at The Public Theater, New York City, in 2003. It received its British premiere at the National Theatre, London, in 2026, directed by Clint Dyer and starring BAFTA Award-winner Letitia Wright.



Tracey Scott Wilson is a multi-award-winning playwright, screenwriter and producer, whose other plays include Exhibit #9, The Good Negro and Buzzer, and whose work for the screen includes The Americans, Fosse/Verdon and Respect.



'Conscientious and absorbing… Wilson has an innate understanding of how the operation of a newspaper is at the mercy of human foibles'



'Slick, smart and engrossing… nuanced characters… Wilson has found a potent dramatic form for a provocative exploration of the ways in which considerations of race affect the media'



'A singular new voice… deeply emotional, deeply intellectual, and deeply musical'