We’re delighted to announce our next big production! The smash hit Broadway musical sensation A Strange Loop will transfer from New York to London this summer opening at the Barbican Theatre on 17 June for a strictly limited one–time–only 12–week season. Tickets go on sale on 10am on Monday 20 March.

Nominated for 11 Tony Awards and winner of every Best Musical award in New York, Michael R. Jackson’s critically acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winning, blisteringly funny masterwork exposes the heart and soul of Usher – a young, gay, Black writer who hates his day job, writing a musical about a young, gay, Black writer who’s writing a musical about a young, gay, Black writer…a strange loop. Usher grapples with desires, identity and instincts he both loves and loathes, all brought to life on stage by a hilarious, straight–talking ensemble.

Check out all the hype from New York in this video!

A Strange Loop is only the 10th musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with the previous winner being Hamilton, with the committee citing the show as a “metafictional musical that tracks the creative process of an artist transforming issues of identity, race, and sexuality that once pushed him to the margins of the cultural mainstream into a meditation on universal human fears and insecurities.”

“A dazzling ride. No measure of praise could be too much”
New York Times
“Explosively imaginative. Dazzlingly one–of–a–kind. Broadway’s best new musical”
Washington Post
“It made me want to go home and write. I don’t have a better compliment than that”
Lin–Manuel Miranda
“Brilliant. Moving. Joyous. Original. The best original musical on Broadway”
Ryan Reynolds
“It’s very funny, thought–provoking, and really moving”
Whoopi Goldberg
“Above and beyond brilliant! An emotional, cultural revolution”
RuPaul
“A soul–baring, biting, brilliant, hilarious musical. One of the most incredible things I’ve ever seen in the theatre”
Alan Cumming

Howard Panter said: “A Strange Loop is nothing short of a spellbinding masterpiece. When I saw it on Broadway I was transfixed and knew immediately that London audiences, like New York, would love this unique, moving and funny musical. Michael R. Jackson is a complete genius and we look forward to welcoming him to these shores for a very successful season at the Barbican this summer.”