It’s hard to recommend a play whose name you can’t say out loud. “You have to see Prince …um…” I found myself sputtering countless times last week. “ Prince F-slur. ”

The play, which imagines Britain’s Prince George coming out as gay about 10 years in the future, is making headlines in spite—or maybe, in part, because—of its provocative title. After a sold-out summer run at Playwrights Horizons/Soho Rep, during which it was (fittingly) crowned a New York Times Critic’s Pick, Prince Faggot has returned off-Broadway for a second staging at Studio Seaview through November 9.

Much of the coverage has rightfully focused on the titular prince, played by John McCrea, and his lover Dev (a ravishing Mihir Kumar). But the heart of the play is held in the hands—or, rather, fists, to borro

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