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REVIEW: A Strange Loop cycles between audacious spectacle and deeply personal reflection
A Strange Loop challenges the conventions of large-scale musical theatre while carving its radical place in the Broadway canon.
"What people need is work that speaks to what they’re going through and experiencing, and what people are trying to puzzle out," says Hogg. "Why do I feel this way? Who am I? What am I doing with my life? These are the same questions we’ve been asking since the Greeks and the ancient Africans. Those questions are huge — and music can help answer them.”
REVIEW: Dixon Road at Musical Stage Company/Obsidian Theatre in Association with Canadian Stage
Fatuma Adar might be Toronto’s response to Lin-Manuel Miranda.