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‘Magnificent. Strikingly original & highly entertaining’”
- The Guardian
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‘The most thrillingly playful and hilarious new musical to hit London in years. Spectacular.’”
- Evening Standard
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‘An experience you won’t forget.’”
- Independent
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‘A Tour de force. Slick, tuneful, irreverent and funny’”
- Time Out London
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A One-Of-A-Kind Masterpiece
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- Vogue
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‘A revolutionary musical. Exhilarating.’”
- Whatsonstage
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‘The show of the summer. Funny, moving and heart-breaking, it breaks all the rules of musical theatre to create something genuinely profound.’”
- Pink News
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‘A unique piece of theatre – thoughtful, beautiful, provocative and hilarious.’”
- Gay Times
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‘Magnificent. Strikingly original & highly entertaining’”
- The Guardian
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‘The most thrillingly playful and hilarious new musical to hit London in years. Spectacular.’”
- Evening Standard
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‘An experience you won’t forget.’”
- Independent
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‘A Tour de force. Slick, tuneful, irreverent and funny’”
- Time Out London
“
A One-Of-A-Kind Masterpiece
”
- Vogue
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‘A revolutionary musical. Exhilarating.’”
- Whatsonstage
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‘The show of the summer. Funny, moving and heart-breaking, it breaks all the rules of musical theatre to create something genuinely profound.’”
- Pink News
“
‘A unique piece of theatre – thoughtful, beautiful, provocative and hilarious.’”
- Gay Times
“
‘Magnificent. Strikingly original & highly entertaining’”
- The Guardian
“
‘The most thrillingly playful and hilarious new musical to hit London in years. Spectacular.’”
- Evening Standard
“
‘An experience you won’t forget.’”
- Independent
“
‘A Tour de force. Slick, tuneful, irreverent and funny’”
- Time Out London
“
A One-Of-A-Kind Masterpiece
”
- Vogue
“
‘A revolutionary musical. Exhilarating.’”
- Whatsonstage
“
‘The show of the summer. Funny, moving and heart-breaking, it breaks all the rules of musical theatre to create something genuinely profound.’”
- Pink News
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‘A unique piece of theatre – thoughtful, beautiful, provocative and hilarious.’”
- Gay Times
Reviews for London’s West End
The London Evening Standard gives A Strange Loop 5 stars!
A Strange Loop at the Barbican review: A thrillingly strange, playful and hilarious new musical. Stuffed with catchy tunes, it’s messy, exhausting and spectacular
Financial Times Review: A Strange Loop is a dazzlingly clever multi-layered musical
Philosophy lessons don’t usually arrive like this. A Strange Loop, which takes its title in part from a cognitive science theory about the concept “I”, bursts on to the stage in a dazzlingly clever, wildly camp and surprisingly touching show.
Gay Times Review: A Strange Loop is a unique, unpredictable and important new queer musical
Where to begin with a show like A Strange Loop? This one-act (no interval) musical runs just shy of 100 minutes, and yet what it attempts in that limited timeframe is far more ambitious than pretty much anything else playing right now.
Guardian Review: Strikingly original, highly entertaining tour of identity politics and the struggles of selfhood
Michael R Jackson’s “meta” musical is as smart and slippery as it was hailed to be on Broadway. A Black, queer, New York theatre usher (Kyle Ramar Freeman) is writing a play about a Black queer man who, in turn, is writing a play about a Black queer man. So it draws its circles within circles, looping impressively without any contrivance, although there is great intellectual and emotional complication within the loops.
Whatonstage review – lyrically revolutionary musical with a pure heart
It is a blast and a revelation. Underneath its insane wittiness, its very American cultural references and its explicit sexual asides, its heart is very pure.
The British Blacklist: Michael R. Jackson talks…A Strange Loop
Michael R. Jackson is the first black musical theatre writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. We spoke to Jackson about the journey in bringing his musical about a young black artist grappling with desires, identity, and instincts he both loves and loathes to life…
City AM: A Strange Loop writer Michael R. Jackson on creating the buzziest musical since Hamilton
A surprise hit in the US, A Strange Loop has landed a huge London run. Adam Bloodworth speaks to the man who dreamed it up while working as an usher on Broadway
Enter A Strange Loop with the London cast and creatives
A Strange Loop – Michael R Jackson’s Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical – celebrated its official opening at London’s Barbican Theatre and the reviews are in, with WhatsOnStage’s Sarah Crompton describing the show as “a blast and a revelation“. Earlier in the week, Whatsonstage met up with Jackson, director Stephen Brackett and cast members.
A playwright, composer and lyricist, Jackson made waves throughout the theater world for A Strange Loop and its riveting depiction of a gay Black man’s desire to free himself from his innermost thoughts.
Washington Informer
L Morgan Lee Showered with Praise in Broadway’s A Strange Loop
The producers and director of A Strange Loop, the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, have no plans to bring the curtain down for good anytime soon.
“By the time we got to Broadway, I’d fine-tuned him. This person is in my body—he’s real to me, but he’s also not me. I’m able to take him off and go home and be Jaquel.”
American Theatre A Strange Loop Takes a Victory Lap That Was Years in the Making
When he put “Broadway” in a song lyric, Michael R. Jackson was unwittingly naming the destination, and the destiny, for his unapologetically Black and queer musical, which won the Best Musical Tony last night.
Through its lengthy development process, A Strange Loop underwent countless loop the loops of revisions, workshops, and more revisions. Here, its key players detail the dizzying path to production — and the sense of déjà vu that drove its success.
ABC
Broadway musical A Strange Loop brings message of perseverance you have to see
Sandy Kenyon: “A Strange Loop demonstrates how each of us can overcome self-doubt and shame to silence those negative voices in our heads, and then go on to amaze ourselves with what we can achieve.”
Broadway.com
Tony Nominee Michael R. Jackson on How A Strange Loop Is ‘Emotionally Autobiographical’
The writer sat down with Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek at the Time Hotel to talk about the musical’s 20-year journey to Broadway and more.
The New York Times
Jaquel Spivey: “I Deserve to Be Here”
Jaquel Spivey graduated from college last May. Now he’s making his Broadway debut as the star of Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, A Strange Loop.
Broadway Direct
Meet the Dynamic Ensemble of “Thoughts”
L Morgan Lee, Jason Veasey, John-Michael Lyles, Antwayn Hopper, and John-Andrew Morrison gave Broadway Direct their own thoughts about working on A Strange Loop.
GQ
Michael R. Jackson Makes Musical Theater for the Revolution
For GQ’s Give It Up series, playwright and composer Michael R. Jackson talks about the importance of Musical Theatre Factory, the organization devoted to underrepresented voices that first produced his Pulitzer Prize–winning musical A Strange Loop.
