A Strange Loop
Wimberly Theatre - 527 Tremont Street
Winner! 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and 2022 Tony Award for Best Musical!
Michael R. Jackson’s blisteringly funny masterwork exposes the heart and soul of a young artist grappling with desires, identity, and instincts he both loves and loathes. Meet Usher: a Black, queer writer writing a musical about a Black, queer writer writing a musical about a Black, queer writer. Usher wrestles with the thoughts in his head in an attempt to capture and understand his own strange loop.
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Michael R. Jackson
Directed by Maurice Emmanuel Parent
A co-production with Front Porch Arts Collective
Winner! 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and 2022 Tony Award for Best Musical!
Michael R. Jackson’s blisteringly funny masterwork exposes the heart and soul of a young artist grappling with desires, identity, and instincts he both loves and loathes. Meet Usher: a Black, queer writer writing a musical about a Black, queer writer writing a musical about a Black, queer writer. Usher wrestles with the thoughts in his head in an attempt to capture and understand his own strange loop.
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Michael R. Jackson
Directed by Maurice Emmanuel Parent
A co-production with Front Porch Arts Collective
Duration
1 hour 40 minutes
Content Advisory:
This production contains explicit language, references to racism, sexual assault, homophobia and scenes of an adult nature.
Age recommendation is 17+
Notable Dates
Audio Description:
Sunday, May 5, 2024 at 3pmFriday, May 17, 2024 at 8pm
Open Captioning:
Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 8pmSunday, May 12, 2024 at 3pm
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Presented By:
Speakeasy Stage Company
SpeakEasy Stage is a non-profit theatre company located in the South End of Boston. Led by award-winning Producing Artistic Director Paul Daigneault, we produce 28 weeks of new plays and musicals each season at the Nancy and Ed Roberts Studio Theater in the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts.
Calderwood Pavilion/BCA, 527 Tremont St
The Calderwood Pavilion contains the Wimberly Theatre, the Roberts Studio Theatre, the Carol G. Deane Hall, and the Nicholas Martin Hall. You should navigate to the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA if you are seeing a show in any of those aforementioned spaces.
Directions and parking for the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA
