Atlanta's production of ‘A Strange Loop’ is a marvelous feat of creativity

The first Atlanta production of the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “ A Strange Loop ,” onstage at Actor’s Express through Aug. 31, is a marvelous feat of creativity from writer Michael R. Jackson , who followed the adage to “Write what you know.”

So Jackson, a former Broadway usher at “The Lion King,” wrote a musical about a 25-year-old usher at “The Lion King” — played here by Eddie Weaver — who wants to write an autobiographical musical but keeps getting interrupted by a chorus of his Thoughts, played by Aliciona Strothers, Clinton Harris, Chris McKnight, Jonathan Bryant, Barry Westmoreland and Javar La’trail Parker.

It is a weird, metatextual and introspective loop of a premise. And this production, directed by Amanda Washington with music direction from John-Micha