Those of us who came of age in the 1960s tend to believe that few attempts at dramatization do the era justice. It wasn't just a time of passing fashion trends, but a period of mass radicalization. Amazingly, two young women who weren't even born then -- playwright/lyricist Maggie Kate Coleman and composer Anna K. Jacobs -- are right on the money with their musical, POP!, now enjoying its world premiere at Yale Rep.

These clever cultural anthropologists dig deep by focusing on what at the time seemed the most superficial of phenomena: Andy Warhol and his circle of publicity-craving camp followers. The intentionally inarticulate self-styled voyeur, who kept himself at a careful remove from t[...]