THE HANGOVER REPORT – Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman’s moving and sturdily constructed musical HARMONY makes its long-awaited New York debut

Last night at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, I attended the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene’s Off-Broadway production of Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman’s “new” musical Harmony. The musical has been … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Michael R. Jackson’s deeply personal Pulitzer Prize-winning A STRANGE LOOP makes the jump to Broadway, triumphantly

Last night, Michael R. Jackson’s singular “self-referential” musical A Strange Loop opened on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre. The production comes by way of Off-Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons (in a co-production … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – JC Lee’s observant comedy TO MY GIRLS investigates white male privilege in gay culture, thereby comprehensively critiquing a generation of gays

This past weekend at Off-Broadway’s Tony Kiser Theater, I attended one of the final performances of Second Stage Theater’s production of To My Girls by JC Lee (the production’s last … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – In its current VISIONARY VOICES program, City Ballet features idiosyncratic contemporary works by Tanowitz, Roberts, and Peck

Yesterday at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater, I caught a Sunday matinee performance by New York City Ballet, which just concluded the first week of its ambitious spring season. … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The new two-hander musical ISLANDER is a beguiling little creation that unobtrusively addresses environmental issues

Last night, I attended a performance of Islander at Playhouse 46, a brand new off-Broadway performance venue in the heart of the Theater District that has given a new lease … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Bated Breath’s intermittently successful CHASING ANDY WARHOL creates some striking tableaus against the city’s iconic vistas

This weekend, I participated in Chasing Andy Warhol, Bated Theatre Company’s latest walking tour cum immersive theater experience. The piece is the theater company’s equally ambitious – if less cohesive … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Steppenwolf actors shine in Tracy Letts’ THE MINUTES, a disturbing if somewhat flawed parody excavating American history

Last night, I caught the Broadway edition of Tracy Letts’ The Minutes at Studio 54. The production comes by way of Steppenwolf Theatre Company, arguably Chicago’s flagship theater company and … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Martin McDonagh’s unsettling, darkly comic HANGMEN, now starring Alfie Allen and David Threlfall, finally opens on Broadway

Last night, Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen opened at the John Golden Theatre, nearly seven years after having premiered at London’s revered Royal Court Theatre. The Olivier Award-winning play was supposed to … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Ntozake Shange’s landmark FOR COLORED GIRLS returns to Broadway in the form of Camille A. Brown’s gloriously cathartic, life-giving revival

Last night, Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf opened at the Booth Theatre, the very theater where the landmark “choreopoem” premiered on Broadway back in … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The starry Broadway revival of AMERICAN BUFFALO is a deliberately calibrated study of American capitalism vis-à-vis toxic masculinity

Last week, David Mamet’s classic play American Buffalo returned to the Great White Way in a taut, requisitely starry revival (the play’s third) at Circle in the Square Theatre. In … Continue Reading →