Before dedicating himself to musical theater, playwright and composer Michael R. Jackson had a different dream: to be a soap opera writer. “I thought I was going to work my way up and become the head ...

I often recommend area theater productions to friends — and sometimes strangers. But I’ve never recommended a show to a whole swath of people. Yet after watching Circle Theatre’s regional premiere of ...

Michael R. Jackson is the author and composer of A Strange Loop, the hit Broadway show that I have not stopped thinking about. I left the play, stumbling onto a hot Avenue, bewildered, tickled, and ...

Instead of canceling Broadway performances of A Strange Loop in its final week, creator Michael R. Jackson triumphantly took the stage — and tells PEOPLE it was beyond anything he could have imagined ...

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SAN FRANCISCO -- A new musical now playing in San Francisco has the best possible credentials. It won the Pulitzer Prize even before it got to Broadway and won a Tony once it opened. "A Strange Loop" ...

"A Strange Loop," the Broadway musical that's drawn rave reviews and earned 11 Tony nominations, centers on a very unlikely lead character: A young Black gay man named Usher who is working as an usher ...

NEW YORK - "A Strange Loop," the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, announced it will close in January. The show will play its final Broadway performance Jan. 15. The show about a Black, gay writer's ...

Michael R. Jackson is a Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning playwright and composer. His musical, “A Strange Loop,” started as a personal monologue he wrote shortly after graduating from NYU and it ...