A Strange Loop

'To watch this show is to enter, by some urgent, bawdy magic, an ecstatic and infinitely more colorful version of the famous surreal lithograph by M. C. Escher: the hand that lifts from the page, becoming almost real, then draws another hand, which returns the favor. Which came first? A Strange Loop is complex, teasing, thrilling'

* New Yorker *

'An exhilarating cocktail of hilarious lyrical complexity... Michael R. Jackson is a musical talent with deep wells of invention'

* Time Out New York *

'A full-on laparoscopy of the heart, soul, and loins... A Strange Loop is a gutsy, jubilantly anguished musical with infectious melodies by the very deft Michael R. Jackson'

* New York Times *

'Brilliant... Harrowing... one-of-a-kind... Hyper-observant and hyper-verbal, Jackson lets his remorselessly satirical eye wander, to hilarious and devastating effect... What makes A Strange Loop so powerful, is not an attempt to find "our common humanity" but an insistence on speaking its own idiosyncratic truth'

* Vogue *

'Phenomenal... both a raw and unflinching interrogation of identity and the most furiously entertaining show on Broadway'

* Variety *

'Triumphant, emotionally lacerating... I sat with my mouth agape, astonished and grateful that something so brutally honest and rigorously constructed had finally broken through to a Broadway stage'

* LA Times *

'Broadway's best new musical... dazzlingly one-of-a-kind... explosively imaginative... will redefine the parameters of a big commercial hit'

* Washington Post *

'Audacious and uproarious... a meta masterpiece'

* Guardian *