VIEWPOINTS – Searching solo shows that stare down life and death: Phillip Howze’s SELF PORTRAITS (DELUXE) and Dael Orlandersmith’s SPIRITUS / VIRGIL’S DANCE
- By drediman
- February 19, 2024
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This past week, I was able to take in a pair of intimate, searching solo shows that stare down life and death. Read on for my thoughts. SELF PORTRAITS (DELUXE)Bushwick … Continue Reading →
THE HANGOVER REPORT – At Birdland, MELISSA ERRICO conjures back “old” New York glamour with her love letter to the city (and Sondheim)
- By drediman
- February 17, 2024
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Currently at Birdland Theater, you can find Broadway star Melissa Errico (My Fair Lady, High Society) delighting audiences with her latest cabaret act. Entitled A Manhattan Valentine, the show arrives … Continue Reading →
THE HANGOVER REPORT – At TFANA, Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks lead Arin Arbus’s thoroughly satisfying revival of WAITING FOR GODOT
- By drediman
- November 15, 2023
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Last night at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn, I caught Theatre for a New Audiences’s new production of Samuel Beckett’s seminal play Waiting for Godot. Originally scheduled to open … Continue Reading →
THE HANGOVER REPORT – Off-Broadway’s DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS is a rambunctiously campy send-up of Bram Stoker’s original
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- October 6, 2023
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Over at New World Stages, you’ll find the Off-Broadway production of Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, which arrives in New York just in time for the Halloween season. Written by … Continue Reading →
VIEWPOINTS – Laughing through grief: Michael Cruz Kayne’s SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS and Jackie Hoffman’s IT’S OVER WHO HAS WEED?
- By drediman
- May 25, 2023
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Over the past week, I came across a pair of shows from comics who used comedy to deal with grief, albeit in divergent ways. Here are my thoughts, as always. … Continue Reading →
VIEWPOINTS – A pair of comics remedy the winter doldrums: Julie Halston in DECLASSIFIED! and Colin Quinn in SMALL TALK
- By drediman
- February 1, 2023
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Few things can remedy the winter doldrums than attending a diverting comedy show. Over the past few days, I was able to take in a pair of inspired solo performances … Continue Reading →
VIEWPOINTS – Surreal, formally rigorous works that investigate the current state: YOU WILL GET SICK and EVANSTON SALT COSTS CLIMBING
- By drediman
- November 25, 2022
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Over the course of the past week, I had the opportunity to take in a pair of formally rigorous Off-Broadway productions that conjure surreal worlds in their pursuit to make … Continue Reading →
THE HANGOVER REPORT – At Soho Rep, Kate Tarker’s spiked play MONTAG confounds and seduces every step of the way
- By drediman
- October 28, 2022
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Earlier this week at the Walkerspace, I attended a performance of Soho Rep’s production of Montag by Kate Tarker. The new play is a vintage offering of Soho Rep, a … Continue Reading →
THE HANGOVER REPORT – LESSONS IN SURVIVAL: 1971 is a stylish reenactment of James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni’s rich, still-timely dialogue on Blackness
- By drediman
- June 10, 2022
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Last night, the stage version of Lessons in Survival: 1971 opened Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre. Co-conceived by Marin Ireland, Peter Mark Kendall, Tyler Thomas (who also directs), and Reggie … Continue Reading →