'Cold War Choir Practice' Off Broadway Review: David Lynch Lives in This Wild Reagan-Era Comedy

1980s Spy Musical Comedy ‘Cold War Choir Practice’ Is Stylishly Mounted but Out of Tune

Ro Reddick’s comedy, set in the era of Mutually Assured Destruction, is itself completely, unashamedly, mad.

'Cold War Choir Practice' Off Broadway Review: David Lynch Lives in This Wild Reagan-Era Comedy

Without putting any dwarves on stage, Knud Adams has picked up the torch of David Lynch like no other stage director before him. With the same deadpan creepiness lurking just under the wood-panel normalcy of life in America, Adams brings Ro Reddick’s exhilarating “Cold War Choir Practice” to perverse life at MCC Theater, where it opened Tuesday after last year’s world premiere at Summerfest. What prevents “Choir Practice” from being a simple rec…

Cold War Choir Practice ★★★★★

Cold War Choir Practice is opening Off-Broadway at an eerily serendipitous time. After a successful run at SummerWorks this past June, this delightfully wacky and boldly clever show — now running at MCC Theater, which shares co-producing honors with Page 73 and Clubbed Thumb — returns at a moment when the country is immersed in a war that is far from cold. And wouldn’t you know it? Russia is involved, providing intelligence to help Iran target U…