A Strange Loopencompasses metatheatricality, race, theater politics, and Tyler Perry

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Original Load Date Oct. 23, 2026, 1:01 p.m.
Last Updated Oct. 23, 2026, 1:01 p.m.
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Michael R. Jackson’s metatheatrical musical _A Strange Loop_ won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, becoming the first musical written by a Black person to receive the honor and, at the time, the first without a Broadway run to be recognized by the Pulitzer committee. (The show opened off-Broadway in...