What does it mean to live in drag through history? To glide past tyrants in pearls and silence, to survive two regimes by curating the past while scrubbing yourself from it? Oakland Theater Project’s I Am My Own Wife doesn’t so much ask these questions—it haunts them.

Let’s be clear: Real Women Have Curves: The Musical isn’t just a glow-up for a beloved play—it’s a defiant love letter sewn from sweat, stretch marks, Spanglish, and sisterhood. And it's about damn time Broadway looked like this.

You don’t walk into a Kate Hamill play expecting subtlety. You walk in expecting a feminist middle finger in corset form—and The Light and the Dark, her newest venture at Primary Stages, delivers it with brushstrokes dipped in venom and vermilion.

Set in a campus study space sometime in 2014 (aka the golden age of Tumblr trauma posts and problematic polyamory), All Nighter is a 2 a.m. fever dream about five college seniors cramming not just for finals, but for closure.

We open on Stacey (played with boozy, baffled brilliance by co-writer Marla Mindelle), a queer theatre grad drowning in disappointment and vodka sodas. Her reward? Waking up trapped inside a 1940s Technicolor musical so saccharine it should come with a dental warning.

If you ever wondered what WWII espionage, cross-dressing MI5 agents, and razor-sharp feminist satire would look like rolled into one gloriously bonkers musical… welcome to Operation Mincemeat.