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THOUGHTS AND PLAYERS

A Strange Loop is likely to throw Broadway audiences for one — in an entertaining and enlightening way.

The musical play centers on the experiences of Usher, a queer Black man writing a musical about a queer Black man writing a musical, while working as a theater usher and being assailed by thoughts that threaten to undermine him. It’s already had two acclaimed

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