THE HANGOVER REPORT – The inspired stage adaptation of SMASH is an obsessive love letter to musical theater and the creative process

After what has seemed like a long and winding road, the stage version of Smash at long last opened on the Great White Way on Thursday night at the Imperial … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Bernadette Peters, Lea Salonga, and company comprehensively celebrate the works of Sondheim in OLD FRIENDS

Last night, the latest in the growing number of high profile revues of the works of the great Stephen Sondheim arrived on Broadway in the form of Old Friends at … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Led by the bubbly Jasmine Amy Rogers, the 21st century musical version of BOOP! is highly enjoyable escapist fun

Then over at the Broadhurst Theatre, you’ll find Boop! The Musical, a musical inspired by the iconic animated character Betty Boop. During the 1930s in the midst of the Great … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Adrienne Warren is breathtaking in the strangely lopsided Broadway revival of THE LAST FIVE YEARS

Earlier this week at the Hudson Theatre, I attended the Broadway arrival of Jason Robert Brown’s pseudo-autobiographical The Last Five Years. Written in 2001, the intimate two-hander musical — which … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The daft new musical OPERATION MINCEMEAT arrives on Broadway, unapologetically silly (and British)

Last night, I was able to take in the Broadway transfer of the Olivier Award-winning musical Operation Mincemeat at the John Golden Theatre. Across the pond in London, the relentlessly … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – A multimedia triumph: Sarah Snook lives up to the hype in the stage adaptation of THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

Last night, the highly anticipated theatrical adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s notorious novel The Picture of Dorian Gray opened on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre headlined by Sarah Snook (who is perhaps … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – On Broadway, ecstatic and revolutionary music-making lies at the heart of BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB

Last night at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, I was able to catch up with the new Broadway musical Buena Vista Social Club, which has arrived on the Great White Way … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – State of the nation plays in the guise of family dramas: Chisa Hutchinson’s AMERIKIN and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ PURPOSE

This week saw the opening of a pair of new and ambitious — albeit tragicomic — family dramas. On the one hand, each operates as an effect comedy of manners … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Idina Menzel dares to scale emotional and physical heights in the unsettled new musical REDWOOD

One of the more anticipated events of the current Broadway season is the return to the Great White Way of Idina Menzel in the new musical Redwood, which opened last … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Generous, accessible storytelling (and considerable star power) propel Simon Rich’s ALL IN: COMEDY ABOUT LOVE

Earlier this week, I finally caught up with All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich at the Hudson Theatre on Broadway (the show is now in the final two … Continue Reading →