THE HANGOVER REPORT – The busy new musical EMPIRE chronicles the erection of New York’s most iconic skyscraper

This summer, you’ll be able to find the new musical Empire enjoying an extended commercial Off-Broadway run at New World Stages. Featuring a score and book by Caroline Sherman and Robert Hull, … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Speaking their truths: Nora Burns’ DAVID’S FRIEND and Scott Ehrenpreis’ CLOWNS LIKE ME

This past week or so, I’ve had the chance to catch up with a pair of theatrical memoirs that have settled in for summer Off-Broadway runs. Here are my thoughts. … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Ryan Spahn’s intimately and immersively staged INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS juggles genres, mostly successfully

This past week, I had the opportunity to take in Out of the Box Theatrics’ Off-Broadway production of Inspired by True Events by Ryan Spahn. Staged at the former New … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Reframed as a ballroom competition, CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL is an unexpected bounty of joy, nostalgia, and humanity

Last night at the Perelman Performing Arts Center, I finally caught up with Cats: The Jellicle Ball, a ridiculously enjoyable, emotionally potent new “revisal” of the (in)famous dance musical by Andrew … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Irish Rep brings back ON BECKETT, Bill Irwin’s illuminating rumination on Samuel Beckett’s writing

Over in Chelsea, Off-Broadway’s Irish Repertory Theatre has brought back On Beckett — a one man show conceived and performed by Tony-winner and clown extraordinaire Bill Irwin — for a … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Hal Linden and Marilu Henner brush off their comedic chops in Ed Weinberger’s retro THE JOURNALS OF ADAM AND EVE

This week, Ed Weinberger’s The Journals of Adam and Eve opened at the Sheen Center for Culture and Thought. The past few years have seen Weinberger — who is perhaps … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Unpacking the grey stuff: Marin Ireland’s PRE-EXISTING CONDITION bravely explores the nuances of domestic violence

I also recently had the opportunity to catch the Off-Broadway production of Marin Ireland’s Pre-Existing Condition, which is currently playing in the intimate upstairs space of the Connelly Theater in … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Sparks fly when inter-generational political perspectives clash in Mario Correa’s N/A

This week, Mario Correa’s N/A opened Off-Broadway at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center. The two-hander stars veteran stage and screen actress Holland Taylor (most theater-goers may remember her memorable … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Engrossing political theater: Josh Fox’s THE EDGE OF NATURE and Panti Bliss’s IF THESE WIGS COULD TALK

Over the past week or so, I’ve been engrossed by a handful of works of political theater. On the heels of attending Dark Noon at St. Ann’s Warehouse on Friday … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – DARK NOON is at once a subversively satiric romp through America’s past and a sobering reckoning

For its summer offering, St. Ann’s Warehouse is presenting the New York premiere of Dark Noon. Created by Danish director Tue Biering and co-directed and choreographed by South African theater-maker Nhlanhla … Continue Reading →