A Strange Loop, Barbican, review: New York’s smash hit doesn’t land in London

By Adam Bloodworth A Strange Loop review and star rating: ★★★ A Strange Loop won every Best Musical award in New York, and was nominated for 11 Tony Awards. It was a New York Times Critics' Pick and won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; unusual for a musical, the accolade was previously taken by Hamilton. The musical closed in January on Broadway, and now writer Michael R Jackson's piece has transferred to the Barbican Centre. Buzz had been building around A Strange Loop for months ahead of its premiere, and in a way that felt unusually strong for a new piece of writing not yet staged in the …

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