THE HANGOVER REPORT – The new musical adaptation of THE GREAT GATSBY streamlines and reframes Fitzgerald’s novel, for better and for worse

Last night, I took a field trip out to Millburn, NJ to check out the musical adaptation of The Great Gatsby at the Paper Mill Playhouse. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s popular … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – A haunted house recap: Going back to basics with BLOOD MANOR, TERRORVISION, and NIGHTMARE DOLLHOUSE

This Halloween season, New Yorkers have available to them a wide variety of live entertainment options. Diverse shows like Renae Simone Jarrett’s Daphne, Edgar Oliver’s Rip Tide, Sankai Juku’s KŌSA, … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – In the refreshingly amiable RIP TIDE, Edgar Oliver fondly conjures his younger self vis-à-vis the Pyramid Club

Last night, I had the opportunity to catch up with Edgar Oliver’s Rip Tide, which is currently wrapping up performances at Axis Company in the West Village (the final performance … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Otherworldly, phantasmagorical visions: SANKAI JUKU returns to The Joyce with a greatest hits program

Last night, Sankai Juku returned to The Joyce Theater, commencing a two week run of the Tokyo-based companys KŌSA: Between Two Mirrors. Created just last year, the surreal evening length piece … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – New Victory presents THE VANISHING ELEPHANT, a soulful family concoction that evokes “War Horse” and “Life of Pi”

This past weekend at Stage 42, I had the chance to catch up with New Victory Theater’s Off-Broadway presentation of the Cahoots NI production of The Vanishing Elephant by Charles … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Deeply internalized trauma through a surreal lens: Renae Simone Jarrett’s DAPHNE and Gisèle Vienne’s L’ÉTANG

In recent days, I was was able to take in a pair of fascinating shows, both of which depicted deeply internalized trauma through a surreal lens. Read on for my … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Sondheim’s final musical HERE WE ARE finds the late master still questing to stretch the limits of the form

Last night, Stephen Sondheim’s final musical Here We Are opened at the Griffin Theater at The Shed. Co-written with playwright David Ives — who provided the musical’s substantial book — … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – For its fall season at Lincoln Center, AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE puts its best foot forward

Last week, American Ballet Theatre took up residence at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for its fall season. Judging from the season’s first two programs — descriptively … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Looking to the past and present: Dance Reflections gets underway strikingly with LA(HORDE)’s ROOM WITH A VIEW and Lucinda Childs’ DANCE

This past week, the New York iteration of Van Cleef & Arpels’ Dance Reflections – a sweeping and ambitious contemporary dance festival presented in conjunction with some of the city’s … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Laurie Anderson’s upbeat LET X = X and Gregory Maqoma’s transcendent BROKEN CHORD kick off BAM’S Next Wave 2023 with a bang

This week, the 2023 version of the Brooklyn Academy of Music‘s Next Wave Festival kicked off with a bang with a pair of memorable offerings (see below for my further … Continue Reading →