VIEWPOINTS – Radical deconstructions: The hyped Broadway revival of SUNSET BLVD. and the confounding SHOWGIRL at NYU Skirball

I recently had the opportunity to take in a pair of provocative productions by adventurous theater-makers that radically deconstruct recognizable works of pop culture, challenging audiences to look at them … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Daniel Dae Kim leads Roundabout’s pointed Broadway revival of David Henry Hwang’s YELLOW FACE

Last night at the Todd Haimes Theatre, I attended Roundabout Theatre Company’s timely Broadway revival of Yellow Face by Tony-winner David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly). A Finalist for the Pulitzer … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The heartfelt but undercooked new musical DISTANT THUNDER engages in a welcome new perspective

Currently over at A.R.T./New York Theatres in Hell’s Kitchen, you’ll be able to find the Off-Broadway musical Distant Thunder, which I attended on Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Conceived by Shaun Taylor-Corbett and … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Kenny Leon’s brisk and unsentimental production of OUR TOWN is only occasionally revelatory

This past weekend, I also had the opportunity to attend the current Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder’s timeless and evergreen play Our Town at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Segmented into … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Meghan Kennedy’s gently provoking THE COUNTER compassionately embraces its bruised souls

This past weekend at the Laura Pels Theatre, I caught up with Roundabout Theatre Company’s Off-Broadway production of The Counter by Meghan Kennedy (the playwright who penned the plays Too … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – David Finnigan’s stealthily unassuming DEEP HISTORY looks to the past to decipher humanity’s fate amidst climate change

Currently at the Public Theater, you’ll be able to catch David Finnigan’s one man show Deep History. Originally written and performed by Finnigan in 2019 as a wake up call … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – In the wonderfully immersive THE WIND AND THE RAIN, Hurricane Sandy unleashes ghosts of the past

Last night, I ventured out to Red Hook, I’m sorry to admit, for the first time (I even took the NYC Ferry there, another first!) to catch Vineyard Theatre and … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – No one puts baby in the corner: Feminism writ large in BLOOD OF THE LAMB and MEDEA RE-VERSED

Over the past week, I had the chance to catch a pair of impassioned if flawed Off-Broadway productions that depicted strong women dealing with having their rights aggressively stripped from … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Go big or go home: The musical parodies THE BIG GAY JAMBOREE and GHOST OF JOHN MCCAIN swing big to varying success

This fall, a pair of Off-Broadway musical parodies are swinging big to lure in audiences. Read on for my thoughts on these larger-than-life productions. THE BIG GAY JAMBOREEOrpheum TheatreOpen run … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Ayad Akhtar’s new play MCNEAL is a head-spinning if uneven vehicle for film star Robert Downey, Jr.

Last week, Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Ayad Akhtar’s highly anticipated new play McNeal opened on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. Akhtar is perhaps best known for having written … Continue Reading →