THE HANGOVER REPORT – Bobbi Jene Smith’s BROKEN THEATER: A fractured choreographic and meta-theatrical dissection of the theater-making process

This past weekend at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre, I also had the opportunity to catch one of the closing performances of Bobbi Jene Smith’s Broken Theater. Co-presented by La … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – J2 Spotlight winningly commences its 2023 season with a rare revival of Kander & Ebb’s WOMAN OF THE YEAR

This past weekend, I caught one of the final performances of J2 Spotlight Musical Theatre Company’s revival of Woman of the Year. The production commences J2 Spotlight’s 2023 season, which … 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 – 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 – Mary Elizabeth Hamilton’s SMART continues EST’s exploration of the influence of technology on the human experience

This past weekend, I caught up with Ensemble Studio Theatre’s latest offering, Smart by Mary Elizabeth Hamilton. The work is the newest installment in the Off-Broadway theater company’s niche series … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Christin Eve Cato’s SANCOCHO investigates and celebrates family and sisterhood via kitchen time

Earlier this week, I had the chance to catch up with Christin Eve Cato’s Sancocho, courtesy of Off-Broadway’s WP Theater on the Upper West Side. The new play comes to … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Zadie Smith’s THE WIFE OF WILLESDEN is elevated by a boisterous, scenery-chewing performance by Clare Perkins

Currently at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater, you’ll find The Wife of Willesden, the debut play by award-winning novelist Zadie Smith. Originally presented by the Kiln Theatre, the … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – York Theatre Company gives Jack Heifner’s musical version of VANITIES a second look

Last weekend, I had the opportunity to drop by the Theatre at St. Jean’s on the Upper West Side to catch York Theatre Company’s Off-Broadway revival of Vanities. The version … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Andre Royo masterfully and vividly animates Audible’s revival of DRINKING IN AMERICA by Eric Bogosian

Last night at the Minetta Lane Theater, I attended Audible Theater’s Off-Broadway revival of Drinking in America by Eric Bogosian. Written in 1986, the work is comprised of a series of monologues that … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – At NYU Skirball, Phelim McDermott reveals his immense, deep obsession with Philip Glass in TAO OF GLASS

This past weekend, I attended the New York premiere of Tao of Glass at NYU Skirball by actor and director Phelim McDermott (who, on the day I attended the show, won a … Continue Reading →