THE HANGOVER REPORT – New York City Ballet commences its spring season: Mearns returns and Nadon shines in an all-Balanchine bill

Last night at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, I attended my first performance of New York City Ballet’s five-week spring season, continuing this week’s immersion in the … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM reaches for cross-over appeal in its opening program at City Center

Last night, I attended the opening night performance of Dance Theatre of Harlem’s spring performances at New York City Center. It was a bittersweet occasion, marking the storied company’s first … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – PETER PAN GOES WRONG expands upon Mischief Theatre’s extreme brand of theatrical shenanigans

Last night, Mischief Theatre’s production of Peter Pan Goes Wrong opened on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. First staged across the pond in the U.K., the production comes to … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY unveils a pair of world premieres in a well-balanced program at The Joyce

Last night at The Joyce Theater, the storied Martha Graham Dance Company settled into a two-week run at the Chelsea dance venue, kicking off a busy spring season of dance … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – In the cheekily titled THE SKIVVIES FIRST FAREWELL TOUR, the scantily-clad duo turns their attention to themselves

Last Monday — on my off night from the theater — I attended a performance by The Skivvies at the subterranean Chelsea Table + Stage. Cheekily entitled The Skivvies First … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Suzan-Lori Parks’s episodic, music-filled PLAYS FOR THE PLAGUE YEAR thoughtfully relives a fraught time

Last night, Suzan-Lori Parks’s Plays for the Plague Year opened Off-Broadway at the Public Theater. The aptly-named work – which originally premiered at the revered downtown theater last fall but … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Bartlett Sher’s tasteful revival of CAMELOT puts the human and political drama front and center

This past weekend, I caught up with the highly anticipated revival of Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot, which recently opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre. The production is the latest in … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – James Ijames’s boisterous Pulitzer Prize-winning FAT HAM feels at home on the Great White Way

This past week also saw the opening of James Ijames’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Fat Ham on Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre (note that the production is not an offering of … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Julia Izumi’s surreal family drama REGRETFULLY, SO THE BIRDS ARE gets lost in maze of its own absurdity

Earlier this week, Regretfully, So the Birds Are by Julia Izumi opened Off-Broadway at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater courtesy of Playwrights Horizons and WP Theater. Essentially a family drama, … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Faye Driscoll’s captivating WEATHERING is an astonishing display of sustained tension and precariousness

Last night at New York Live Arts, I attended Faye Driscoll’s captivating and altogether sensational new work Weathering. In essence, the piece — the capstone of Driscoll’s two-year residency at the … Continue Reading →