Anthony Edwards has joined the cast of the Broadway musical Girl from the North Country… with just a few hours notice!
Review: 'A Strange Loop' makes a remarkable Broadway debut
27.04.2022 - 06:23 / abcnews.go.com
NEW YORK -- There is a cosmic deliciousness to the fact that “A Strange Loop” has landed on Broadway mere yards away from one of its juiciest targets.In the new musical that opened Tuesday at the Lyceum Theatre, we meet the character Usher, an unhappy playwright slumming as an usher at “The Lion King,” which in real life is playing just across 7th Avenue at the Miskoff Theatre. If the wind was just right, Usher might be able to heave a rock and hit Rafiki.Every once and a while — sadly, too few — we get something that pushes the musical theater form completely, taking an utterly unforgettable, idiosyncratic trip.
Add Michael R. Jackson's “A Strange Loop” to the list that includes “Fun Home” and “Angels in America,” both of which have echoes here.
Like them, it is astonishing, challenging and awesome.Jackson's 2020 Pulitzer Prize drama winner is a theater meta-journey — a tuneful show about a Black gay man writing a show about a Black gay man. That show is also called “A Strange Loop.”Poor Usher is haunted by a Greek chorus of voices — his thoughts as well as homophobic family members — who pummel, undercut and berate him.
“It’s Your Daily Self-Loathing!” one says. “I had some time to kill so I thought I’d drop in to remind you of just how truly worthless you are.”Jaquel Spivey, in his Broadway debut, plays Usher with such hang-dog and sweet poignancy that it may take audience members supreme self-restraint not to go up on stage and give him a hug.
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14.05.2022 / 00:43
Broadway's 'A Strange Loop' Cast Performs on 'Meyers' After Earning the Most Tony Nominations
Jaquel Spivey and the cast of Broadway’s hot new musical A Strange Loop hit the stage for a performance on Late Night with Seth Meyers this week!
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10.05.2022 / 17:11
‘The Lost City’ Makes Its Streaming Debut: How to Watch the Bullock-Tatum Comedy Online
Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum’s adventure comedy “The Lost City” arrives on Paramount+ today, following a surprise box office success last month.
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09.05.2022 / 18:33
Tony Nomination Reactions: ‘MJ’ Lead Actor Myles Frost, ‘A Strange Loop’ Team, Conor McPherson, Lynn Nottage, David Morse & More
Reactions are coming in to this morning’s Tony Award nominations, an event that feels like a reassuringly familiar sign of springtime after two-plus years of Covid upheaval on Broadway.
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09.05.2022 / 16:33
Tony Awards 2022: ‘A Strange Loop,’ ‘MJ,’ ‘Paradise Square’ Dominate Nominations
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“A Strange Loop,” an extremely meta musical, dominated the nominations for the 75th Tony Awards on Monday. The show, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for its Off-Broadway run, scored a leading 11 nominations.“A Strange Loop” was followed closely behind by “MJ,” a jukebox musical featuring the music of Michael Jackson, and “Paradise Square,” a look at the Five Points area of Manhattan and the tensions that erupted in the violent Draft Riots of 1863, which both nabbed 10 nominations.
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09.05.2022 / 08:49
Packed Tony nominations show return of pre-pandemic Broadway
NEW YORK -- After a frantic end to the Broadway season and some nervous moments as shows struggled to reach the eligibility deadline amid fresh COVID-19 outbreaks, nominations for the Tony Awards are finally at hand.Tony Award winner Adrienne Warren and three-time nominee Joshua Henry were scheduled to help reveal the 26-category list Monday morning on the Tony's YouTube channel.The season — with a whopping 34 new productions — represents a full return to theaters after nearly two years of a pandemic-mandated shutdown. It is also notable for a wave of plays by Black playwrights, reflecting the impact on Broadway of the global conversation about race following the killing of George Floyd in 2020..The potential shows eligible for nominations are an extremely varied lot, from a David Mamet revival to one by Paula Vogel.
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07.05.2022 / 05:01
GLAAD Media Awards: Judith Light, Wilson Cruz Among Winners
Wilson Chapman editorJudith Light and Wilson Cruz were among the many honorees of the New York City GLAAD Media Awards on Friday.Now in its 33rd year, the annual GLAAD Media Awards celebrates television, film, music, comic books and journalism that have represented breakthroughs and advancements in LGBTQ+ representation. The New York ceremony announced the rest of the 30 recipients, after the April 2 ceremony in Los Angeles announced the initial group of honorees.
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05.05.2022 / 18:57
Review: 'Doctor Strange 2’ gets weirder, scarier, messier
Marvel movies, practically demands it. And for the moment that means a lot of cameo opportunities.
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03.05.2022 / 18:13
Review: 'Doctor Strange 2’ gets weirder, scarier, messier
Marvel movies, practically demands it. And for the moment that means a lot of cameo opportunities.
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03.05.2022 / 00:27
‘How Saba Kept Singing’ Review: The Extraordinary Life of an Auschwitz Survivor
Alissa Simon Film Critic“How Saba Kept Singing” seeks to understand how Polish Jewish teenager David Wisnia survived nearly three years in Auschwitz. The editing and vague timelines make it seem as if this latest doc from multi-hyphenate Sara Taksler (“Tickling Giants”) is revealing something previously unreported, even though a 2019 New York Times article already divulged the touching love story that underlies the “How” of the title.
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29.04.2022 / 09:31
Queen Latifah & Partner Eboni Nichols Attend 'A Strange Loop' Opening on Broadway!
Queen Latifah enjoyed a night out on Broadway this week with longtime partner Eboni Nichols!
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28.04.2022 / 05:43
‘Mr. Saturday Night’ review: Billy Crystal brings yuks to Broadway
made some dud films lately, but this is Crystal reliving his “When Harry Met Sally” prime.Crystal’s musical, which he’s written the book for alongside Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, is based on one of his lesser films, 1992’s “Mr. Saturday Night,” which got mixed reviews back then. The story of a TV comedy has-been’s attempt at a comeback moves gracefully to the stage, and comes at a more appropriate time in the actor’s life. Thirty years older and wiser, he still plays Buddy Young, a faded comedy legend of a long-gone black-and-white show called the “Coleman Comedy Hour” who was blackballed after a mental breakdown.
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27.04.2022 / 05:41
‘A Strange Loop’ Review: Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer-Winning Broadway Musical Is an Unflinching Riot
Naveen Kumar Subjectivity is conditional. We can only understand our own points of view in relation to the differences that separate us.