THE HANGOVER REPORT – Joey Merlo’s MIDNIGHT COLESLAW’S TALES FROM BEYOND THE CLOSET!!! campily intersects queerness and the macabre
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- June 10, 2024
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Over this past weekend at The Tank, I had the opportunity of catching up with Midnight Coleslaw’s Tales from Beyond the Closet!!! The evening of one-acts has been masterminded by Joey Merlo, … Continue Reading →
THE HANGOVER REPORT – Irish Rep concludes its successful Friel-focused season with a solid revival of MOLLY SWEENEY
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- June 9, 2024
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Irish Repertory Theatre is closing out its season — which is dedicated to the works of the great Brian Friel (the curated season has been officially marketed as “The Friel … Continue Reading →
THE HANGOVER REPORT – Karlheinz Stockhausen’s slow-burning INSIDE LIGHT immerses audiences in organic electronic soundscapes
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- June 7, 2024
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Currently at the Park Avenue Armory, you’ll find the American premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Inside Light, a two-part presentation that assembles selections from Licht, the pioneering composer’s rarely-performed cycle of … Continue Reading →
VIEWPOINTS – Back where they belong: Roundabout’s revival of HOME and Second Stage’s BREAKING THE STORY
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- June 7, 2024
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This brand new theater season has seen the recent arrivals of a pair of plays that explore the notion of home and finding one’s place in life. Both feature central … Continue Reading →
THE HANGOVER REPORT – Rosalind Chao and BD Wong navigate the immigrant experience in WHAT BECAME OF US, Shayan Lofti’s eloquent new play
- By drediman
- June 6, 2024
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This week, Atlantic Theater Company’s production of What Became of Us by Shayan Lofti (in his Off-Broadway playwriting debut) opened at Atlantic Stage 2. In short, the new two-hander tells … Continue Reading →
THE HANGOVER REPORT – The Met revives Mark Morris’s inspired hybrid staging of Gluck’s ORFEO ED EURIDICE starring Anthony Roth Costanzo
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- June 5, 2024
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For my final production of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2023/2024 season, I chose to show up for Gluck’s masterpiece Orfeo ed Euridice, the composer’s take on the ubiquitous ancient Greek tale … Continue Reading →
THE HANGOVER REPORT – José Rivera’s new play THE HOURS ARE FEMININE articulates the painful process of assimilation
- By drediman
- May 29, 2024
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Undoubtedly one of the prominent Puerto Rican playwrights of his generation, José Rivera has had a long and illustrious career in the theater (I still remember first seeing his wild … Continue Reading →