Michael R. Jackson’s off-Broadway musical, “A Strange Loop,” just ended a successful run at Playwrights Horizons in New York, presented in association with Page 73.

The musical is kind of meta, as Jackson describes it: “‘A Strange Loop’ is a musical about a black man who works as an usher at a Broadway show, who's writing a musical called ‘A Strange Loop’ about a black man who works as an usher at a Broadway show, who's writing a musical about a black man who works as an usher at a Broadway show, and sort of cycling through his own perception of himself and his own self-hatred.” It might sound heady, but Jackson’s wit shines through, especially in the play’s hilarious and catchy musical numbers.

 

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