A Strange Loop on Broadway: Show Is Now Closed

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A Strange Loop Summary

  • Show Status: Closed
  • Genre: Musical
  • A Strange Loop is 120 minutes long, including an intermission of 15 minutes
  • 8 Shows per week
  • Previews Began: April 14, 2022
  • Show Opened : April 26, 2022
  • Show Closed: January 15, 2023

Pulitzer Prize-winning new musical follows a young artist at war with a host of demons, including the punishing thoughts in his head

What's A Strange Loop Like?

A black queer writer is working in a job that he hates while writing his original musical. That show is about a Black queer writer working a job he hates while writing his original musical. Which in turn is about a black queer writer working a job he hates while writing his original musical and so on.

The show cycles through his own self hatred and in a Kafkaesque style of something akin to Christopher Nolan's movie Inception, the layers of reality for our protagonist in A Strange Loop seem to have no end.

Is A Strange Loop Good for Kids?

This show contains material that may be objectionable to some people.

The show also contains some simulated gay sex scenes that also become violent. There is lots of talk about gay sex and a lot of use of the A-List swear words.

The show dialog has a liberal sprinkling of the full list of FCN words (F-word, C-Word and the N-word) and they are bandied about like they are the only three words left in the urban dictionary. The show called have been called "FCN", except the full versions of the words.

There is also a lot of references to anal sex and to the graphic "tearing open" of orifices and insertion of men's sexual organs.

This show may not be appropriate for younger children and for those with a timid disposition. Everyone else will find the show a riot. A shocking show, but still a hoot.

A Strange Loop on Broadway Background

Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning new musical follows a young artist at war with a host of demons — including the punishing thoughts in his head — in an attempt to capture and understand his own strange loop.

Theatre Information

Lyceum Theatre

149 West 45th Street
New York, NY 10019
Seats: 943
Entrance: 45th Street between 6th and 7th avenue
Theatre Information

Lyceum Theatre Seating Chart

A Strange Loop Marquee

A Strange Loop Marquee

Cast Members

Usher
Jaquel Spivey
Thought 1
L Morgan Lee
Thought 2
James Jackson, Jr.
Thought 3
John-Michael Lyles
Thought 4
John-Andrew Morrison
Thought 5
Jason Veasey
Thought 6
Antwayn Hopper

Producers

Playwrights Horizon

Page 73 Productions

RuPaul Charles

Don Cheadle

Jennifer Hudson

Mindy Kaling

Billy Porter

Ilana Glazer

Alan Cumming

Benj Pasek

Justin Paul

Production Credits

Director
Stephen Brackett
Music Director
Rona Siddiqui
Choreography
Raja Feather Kelly

Creative Team

Book, Music and Lyrics
Michael R Jackson