Michael R Jackson on A Strange Loop – his Pulitzer prize winning queer Black musical

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Michael R Jackson on A Strange Loop - his Pulitzer prize winning queer Black musical

He’s already won the Pulitzer Prize and just about every award going in New York, now Michael R Jackson’s critically-acclaimed musical has landed in London at the Barbican.

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The protagonist, Usher, is a young, gay, Black writer who hates his day job. So instead he’s writing a musical about a young, gay, Black writer, who’s writing a musical about a young, gay, Black writer…

No wonder it’s called A Strange Loop.

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Date: August 9, 2023