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‘They’re about the mess of being human’: how the mental health musical won over the West End

Jazz hands and big ballads are out and ‘writing about real emotions’ is in, as a new wave of musicals exploring body issues, bullying and queer identity hits the capital’s biggest stages. What’s behind this taste for introspection?

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Confronting the audience and breaking the fourth wall: why Black drama is getting meta

On stage and screen, self-referential dramas such as A Strange Loop and American Fiction are on the rise, with playful postmodernism a potent weapon in the fight against inequality

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Crazy for You, Cherrelle Skeete and A Strange Loop: The Evening Standard Theatre Podcast

A love letter to old school American showbiz - we review Crazy for You, which is now on at the Gillian Lynne Theatre. This feet-tapping musical features the songs of George and Ira Gershwin, and it’s directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman.

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The week in theatre: Dr Semmelweis; Beneatha’s Place; A Strange Loop; Song from Far Away – review

Harold Pinter theatre; Young Vic; Barbican; Hampstead theatre, LondonMark Rylance mesmerises as the tormented Hungarian doctor; Kwame Kwei-Armah’s new satire is all too timely

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OPINION - From Broadway to London: Michael R Jackson on his hit A Strange Loop | The Evening Standard Theatre Podcast

'My goal’s being a rapid responder to changing culture and challenging the status quo.'

Evening Standard

Wimbledon staff furious over £20 pasta for lunch

Since last year’s tournament, prices on the staff menu have risen

Evening Standard

A Strange Loop review – ‘fat, Black, queer body’ musical is magnificent

Michael R Jackson’s Pulitzer-winning play is a strikingly original, highly entertaining tour of identity politics and the struggles of selfhood

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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

Evening Standard

A Strange Loop’s Michael R Jackson: ‘I wrote this show as a little lifeboat at a very uncertain time’

The creator of the multi-award winning Broadway show on being credited with reinventing the American musical, his run-in with Liz Phair and why he’s fed up with modern TV

Evening Standard

‘There will be sex!’ Inside A Strange Loop – the queer, Black Broadway megasmash now hitting Britain

The Pulitzer prize-winning musical shows the world what it’s like ‘to travel in a fat, Black queer body’. Writer Michael R Jackson, a former Lion King usher who based it on his life, relives his astounding success

The Guardian - UK

Review: ‘Fat Ham’ on Broadway is a juicy Shakespeare reinvention, with backyard mayhem and a barbecued ghost

NEW YORK — In playwright James Ijames’ eye-popping “Fat Ham,” a malcontent named Juicy, kinda like Hamlet, is chilling in his North Carolina backyard when his recently deceased dad exits the presumptive fires of hell and pops up out of his patio grill.

Chicago Tribune

Why the Tony triumph of ‘A Strange Loop’ is momentous for Broadway

Michael R. Jackson’s “A Strange Loop” received more Tony nominations than any other show in Broadway’s 2021-22 season, but Tony voters are a fickle lot. Recall what happened to Jeremy O. Harris’ “Slave Play” last year. Nominated for 12 awards, a record for a drama, the production went home empty-handed.

Los Angeles Times

Tony Moments: A Night for Broadway to Reclaim its Groove

Surely many in the audience were thinking it, but “Company” director Marianne Elliott said it most directly at Sunday's Tony awards: In the devastating two years since the pandemic hit, it “felt at times that live theater was endangered.” As in, the industry might never recover. The exuberant ceremony Sunday…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Tony Moments: A night for Broadway to reclaim its groove

Broadway has its groove back, said Tonys host Ariana DeBose at an exuberant ceremony seeking to illustrate just that sentiment

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The Guardian - UK

Tony awards 2022: the full list of winners

Find out who won what at Broadway’s biggest night of the year, where winners included Company, The Lehman Trilogy and A Strange Loop

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Plays about Black artists and Wall St are big winners on Broadway

New York (AFP) - A musical about a Black and queer author won a top prize at the Broadway awards in New York on Sunday, while a play about Lehman Brothers and a Michael Jackson biopic also triumphed at the Oscars of the theater.

Evening Standard

British talent scoops top prizes at 75th Tony Awards

Best leading actor in a play went to veteran actor Simon Russell Beale and the direction categories were dominated by Sam Mendes and Marianne Elliott

Tribune News Service

Tony Awards spreads the kudos — with love for the entire team

It took an entire village to bring a struggling Broadway back. Even the people checking the vax cards at the theater’s doors, as COVID-era patrons fretted over missing curtains that had struggled to rise at all.

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Tony awards 2022: Company and The Lehman Trilogy lead big night for Brits

Broadway transfers of West End shows were out in front at this year’s celebration of the best of New York theatre

The Independent UK

Tonys Latest | Michael R. Jackson reflects on his loop

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How 'A Strange Loop' fits into Black theater legacies

The musical — which is up for 11 Tony Awards this Sunday — subverts and reimagines decades of Black theater and pop culture.

Tribune News Service

Tony Awards 2022: Who will win, who should win?

The Tony Awards are coming. So who’s going to win?

Tribune News Service

‘A Strange Loop’ creator Michael R. Jackson on Tony Awards, his love for Liz Phair and his issue with Tyler Perry

NEW YORK — Tyler Perry and Liz Phair are two names you’d never expect to hear mentioned in a Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway show marketed as a “big, Black, queer-ass American musical.”

Tribune News Service

Jennifer Hudson could become an EGOT at Sunday’s Tony Awards, thanks to ‘A Strange Loop’ producer Barbara Whitman

NEW YORK — Jennifer Hudson may become an EGOT on Sunday.

The Independent UK

'A Strange Loop' actor, creator on long journey to Tony noms

When Jaquel Spivey found out he was nominated for a Tony Award as lead actor in “A Strange Loop,” he was shocked

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