THE HANGOVER REPORT – The long-running London hit THE WOMAN IN BLACK gets an intimate staging at the McKittrick Hotel

Last night at the McKittrick Hotel, I finally attended a performance of Stephen Mallatratt’s adaptation of Susan Hill’s ghost story The Woman in Black. At 30-years-old, the play – which tells the … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The Met’s inadvertent concert presentation of Berlioz’s LA DAMNATION DE FAUST proves sonically glorious

This past weekend, I attended the opening performance of the Metropolitan Opera’s inadvertent concert presentation of Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust. I say inadvertent because the opera company had originally planned to … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – PROTOTYPE 2020 finds the new opera festival as adventurous and vital as ever

One of the highlights of the frigid winter months in New York is the opportunity to bask in Prototype, the vital annual festival celebrating new opera and music theater. This year’s edition … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Bess Wohl’s semi-successful comedy GRAND HORIZONS opens on Broadway, led by the great Jane Alexander

This week, Second Stage Theater’s production of Grand Horizons by Bess Wohl opened on the Great White Way at the Helen Hayes Theatre. The new comedy was developed in conjunction … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – James & Jerome’s THE CONVERSATIONALISTS is the storytelling duo’s most theatrical and elaborate creation to date

James Harrison Monaco and Jerome Ellis – together, simply known as James & Jerome – have emerged in recent years as one of the most idiosyncratic and compelling storytellers in … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Gustavo Dudamel triumphantly leads the NY PHILHARMONIC after an absence of more than a decade

This past week at the David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, Gustavo Dudamel returned to conduct the New York Philharmonic after an absence of more than a decade. As if to compensate … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Eboni Booth’s intensely naturalistic PARIS unsettlingly depicts the desperation of minimum wagers

Last night, Paris by Eboni Booth (who first came to my attention as an actress in Dance Nation and Fulfillment Center, both exciting new plays) opened Off-Broadway at the bunker-like, subterranean Atlantic Stage … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The stage adaptation of MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON starring the quietly authoritative Laura Linney stays true to its novelistic roots

Last night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, I attended a performance of My Name Is Lucy Barton, Rona Munro’s stage adaptation of the bestselling 2016 novel of the same name by … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – UNDER THE RADAR: Reviews, Batch 2

Happily, my week proceeded with continued Under the Radar immersion. Here is my second batch of reviews. NOT I Touretteshero & Battersea Arts Centre (U.K.) On paper, staging Samuel Beckett’s Not I … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – At the New Victory, CARTOGRAPHY constructively spins the refugee experience

This past weekend amidst my hectic Under the Radar immersion downtown, I was able to fit in a viewing of Kaneza Schaal and Christopher Myers’ Cartography at the New Victory Theater. I’ve … Continue Reading →