VIEWPOINTS – Assessing two deep cuts: Mint’s rare revival of SUMP’N LIKE WINGS and Gingold Theatrical Group’s revamp of THE DEVIL’S DISCIPLE

Over the years, two Off-Broadway theater companies — Mint Theater Company and Gingold Theatrical Group — have made it their mission to dust off plays on the brink of falling … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – American Ballet Theatre unveils a disorienting but surface-level dance adaptation of CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

American Ballet Theatre concluded its fall season last week at the David H. Koch Theatre at Lincoln Center with the world premiere of choreographer Helen Pickett and director James Bonas’s … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The Lazours’ new musical WE LIVE IN CAIRO is an unsteady ode to “Rent” and Arab Spring revolutionaries

This fall’s offering at New York Theatre Workshop is the new musical We Live in Cairo, which arrives Off-Broadway after having been previously programmed at American Repertory Theater in Cambridge … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Susanna Mälkki incisively conducts the NY PHILHARMONIC, producing an existential soundtrack for our times

One usually goes to the concert hall to escape the realities of life. But on a recent visit to David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, I was struck by how … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – A triumphant return: City Center’s gala revival of RAGTIME lives up to its reputation as one of the great musicals of the modern era

Based on E.L. Doctorow’s 1975 novel Ragtime, the seminal and beloved 1996 musical adaptation of the same name — featuring music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Bill T. Jones’s seminal full length piece STILL/HERE returns to BAM more universal but no less heartrending

This week, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company revives the seminal Still/Here at the Howard Gilman Opera House, returning for the first time three decades later — thanks in part to … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The immersive new gay-themed musical LITTLE HOUSE ON THE FERRY delivers breezy entertainment

Last night, Robert Gould’s new gay-themed musical Little House on the Ferry officially re-opened The Duplex’s upstairs cabaret space — now rebranded as “Ferry’s Landing” — which has been shuttered … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The future looks grim in Sarah Mantell’s poetically wrought new play IN THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE PARKING LOT

Opening earlier this week was Sarah Mantell’s disarming if enigmatic new play In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot, Playwrights Horizons’ main stage offering this fall. The winner of last year’s … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Hallucinatory visions of the end of the world: Ars Nova’s THE BEASTIARY and Malaprop’s HOTHOUSE

Over the past few days, I came across a pair of shows with grim matters on their minds — namely, the end of the world as we know it, and … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE continues its fall season showing off its versatility in a slew of signature works

Over the past week or so at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, I had the chance to further immerse myself in American Ballet Theatre’s fall season, which … Continue Reading →