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A Strange Loop
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Meet Usher: a Black, queer writer writing a musical about a Black, queer writer writing a musical about a Black, queer writer. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical, Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning, blisteringly funny work of art exposes the heart and soul of a young artist grappling with desires, identity, and instincts he both loves and loathes.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
The reviews of Michael R. Jackson’s multi-award-winning meta-musical “A Strange Loop,” which comes to American Conservatory Theater from Broadway, have been ecstatic. The central character, Usher, who’s Black and queer, is of course an usher--for “The Lion King”--and is writing a play about a Black, queer man as we watch. Other performers represent his inner conflicts. The New York Times called the play “uproarious” and “disquieting.”
Jean Schiffman
Contributing Writer, Theater
American Conservatory Theater
Under the leadership of Tony Award-winning Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon and Executive Director Jennifer Bielstein, A.C.T.’s mission is to engage the spirit of the San Francisco Bay Area, activate stories that resonate, promote a diversity of voices and points of view, and empower theater makers and audiences to celebrate liveness.
Under the leadership of Tony Award-winning Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon and Executive Director Jennifer Bielstein, A.C.T.’s mission is to engage the spirit of the San Francisco Bay Area, activate stories that resonate, promote a diversity of voices and points of view, and empower theater makers and audiences to celebrate liveness.