Baghdaddy at St. Luke's Theatre

Prissy pundits, bickering bureaucrats and a dissolute defector all play supporting roles in this boisterous, irreverent musical comedy in which singing-and-dancing CIA agents spill the beans about how the United States bungled its way into the war in Iraq. Inspired by real events, Baghdaddy tracks the path of the questionable intelligence that somehow made it all the way up the agency ladder. A New York Times Critics' Pick in its original off-Broadway run, the play the Times called "an important, cunning, rock-solid musical comedy" comes to the stage at New York's St. Luke's Theater with most of its original cast intact, including Brennan Caldwell (Urinetown), Brandon Espinoza (Gypsy, Big, Les Miz) and Larisa Oleynik (Mad Men, 10 Things I Hate About You).