6/7/2023 0 Comments Onstage new york photos![]() In other words, what goes around comes around many a time in both word and deed. The play’s trajectory, as described by Usher himself, is about “a Black, queer man writing a musical about a Black, queer man who’s writing a musical about a Black queer man who’s writing a musical about a Black, queer man.” Circular in structure, it is a story that seems to be chasing its own tail. ![]() ![]() However, in A Strange Loop, which is currently running thru July 28 th at Playwrights Horizons have we come across something we’ve not seen before: a many-faceted in-your-face gay male character like Usher (the extremely talented Larry Owens) who spares no detail, however raw, intimate, personal, scatological and sordid – and it is all of those and more – in the telling and showing of his life.īe prepared for butt-fucking, simulated sex, dick and pussy talk, scabrous asides, and kamikaze attacks on Beyoncé and Tyler Perry. To jog my mind as well as yours, New York theatres have hosted Father Came Home From The Wars, Choir Boy, The House That Will Not Stand, Fabulation, The Color Purple, An Octoroon, American Son, Daddy, The Secret Life of Bees, The Slave Play (previewing on Broadway this coming September), the still-running The Rolling Stone, and Pulitzer Prize-winning Fairview. In the past few years, there have been a healthy number of beautifully crafted, wonderfully acted, and solidly produced Black-centric plays both on Broadway and Off that have examined from every conceivable angle – historically, sociologically, and psychologically – what it means to be Black in the United States, both past and present.
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