By Naveen Kumar

The emotional climax of “A Strange Loop,” now playing through Aug. 10 at Atlas Performing Arts Center, unfolds in a fierce and vulnerable silence. Usher, the narrator (played by Gabriel Silva), is confronting his father (Wade Green) about a lifelong pileup of misunderstandings and resentments. Audience members can either read the heated dialogue in captions projected on the set or, if they understand American Sign Language, watch the actors’ impassioned gestures. Subscribe for unlimited access to The Post You can cancel anytime. Subscribe

The musical by Michael R. Jackson, which played a pre-Broadway tryout at Woolly Mammoth before transferring to Broadway and winning the Tony for best musical in 2022, is built around a meta conceit: Usher is a musical theater writer t

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