Review: ‘A Strange Loop’ makes a remarkable Broadway debut
Jackson does make one terrible mistake, though. Usher’s tormentors take turns toward the beginning questioning the play’s very purpose: “No one cares about a writer who is struggling to write/They’ll say it’s way too repetitious/And so overly ambitious.”
They’re wrong on all counts. May “A Strange Loop” run as long as “The Lion King.”
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