THE HANGOVER REPORT – Despite its storytelling flaws, BLACK NO MORE intoxicates with its out-of-the-box audacity and exciting performances

Also last week, the anticipated new musical Black No More opened at the Pershing Square Signature Center courtesy of The New Group. The work is primarily the brainchild of Tariq … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The wildly hyped, skin deep revival of THE MUSIC MAN pops and crackles like a vividly animated cartoon

This past week, I was in the audience of the wildly hyped Broadway revival of Meredith Wilson’s classic musical The Music Man at the Winter Garden Theatre (back in September … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The Flea re-emerges with ARDEN, a shamanistic cleansing ritual for a troubled theater company

This past weekend, I ventured down to The Flea to catch Arden: But Not Without You. The production marks the return to in-person performance for the adventurous Off-Broadway theater company, … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Hansol Jung’s WOLF PLAY continues Soho Rep’s winning streak of presenting provocative, cutting-edge theater

Despite its pocket-sized performance space (i.e., the intimate and flexible Walkerspace), I’ve maintained for a while now that Soho Rep is one of the most important theater companies in the … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The scrappy and quirky new musical SPACE DOGS takes a bit too many detours to make its point

Last weekend, Van Hughes and Nick Blaemire’s Space Dogs opened Off-Broadway courtesy of MCC Theater. Set mostly in the Soviet Union during the Cold War (with a few interludes that … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – LOVE TO ME: The great Judy Kuhn serenades an adoring Valentine’s Day audience at The Green Room 42

Yesterday evening for one-night-only at The Green Room 42, the great Judy Kuhn serenaded an adoring Valentine’s Day audience. If you’re a musical theater fan, you’re likely to be familiar … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Pam Tanowitz’s beguiling modern masterpiece FOUR QUARTETS triumphantly arrives in New York City

Last night, I attended Four Quartets, Pam Tanowitz’s much lauded evening length dance piece, which is set to T. S. Eliot’s collection of poems of the same name. Although I … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Composer Ricky Ian Gordon impressively debuts a pair of new operas in quick succession: INTIMATE APPAREL & THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS

In recent weeks, composer Ricky Ian Gordon pulled off quite the hat trick by impressively debuting two new operas (with different librettists and creative teams) in quick succession. Here are … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Maestro Nézet-Séguin leads the Philadelphia Orchestra in a rich, thoughtfully curated program, featuring two female composers of color

Last night, conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin returned to the podium in New York to lead his mighty Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. After an unusually hectic few months following the post-pandemic … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Dave Harris’s ambitious and panoramic fantasia TAMBO & BONES only moderately provokes

This week, Dave Harris’s Tambo & Bones opened Off-Broadway courtesy of Playwrights Horizons. The production is being co-presented by Los Angeles’s Center Theatre Group, where it will run subsequent to … Continue Reading →