THE HANGOVER REPORT – Heidi Schreck’s WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME, more potent than ever on Broadway

Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me has had a long journey this season already, having played to great acclaim Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop in the fall, then continuing … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Reassessing Lepage’s RING CYCLE for the Met, roughly at the halfway point

Back in 2010, renowned French Canadian experimental theater director Robert Lepage embarked on staging Richard Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle – one of the towering achievements in Western Art – for the Metropolitan Opera, replacing a … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Rehana Lew Mirza’s punchy, familiar HATEF**CK dutifully entertains

Last weekend, I caught the Off-Broadway production of Hatef**k by Rehana Lew Mirza, courtesy of WP Theater and Colt Coeur. The play continues the dialogue started by Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Theatre Re’s near wordless THE NATURE OF FORGETTING is a gorgeous portrait of early onset dementia

Playing through just this weekend is a marvelous, soulful piece of physical theater entitled The Nature of Forgetting at the New Victory Theater, courtesy of the London-based Theatre Re. The show, a … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Ambiguity reigns in PERP, Lyle Kessler’s indistinct new play

Last night at TBG Mainstage Theatre, Lyle Kessler’s world premiere play Perp opened Off-Broadway courtesy of the Barrow Group. Mr. Kessler is perhaps best known for penning the 1983 play Orphans, which was famously performed … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – City Ballet star Sara Mearns shines in the delightful Encores! revival of Rodgers and Hart’s I MARRIED AN ANGEL

Sunday evening at New York City Center, I caught the final performance of the delightful Encores! revival of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s rarely performed I Married an Angel. Besides getting … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Ira Fuchs’ sturdy new play VILNA is workmanlike and ultimately quite affecting

Yesterday, I attended a matinee performance of Ira Fuchs’ new play Vilna Off-Broadway at the Theatre at St. Clement’s. Set in the Polish city of Vilna, the play depicts the turbulent two-and-a-half … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Little Lord’s SKINNAMARINK channels early childhood, menacingly and playfully

Before ending its brief run this weekend, I was able to catch Little Lord’s Skinnamarink, one of the many offerings of New York Theatre Workshop’s Next Door series. The show uses “McGuffey’s Eclectic Readers” … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The Wooster Group’s THE B-SIDE still conjures ghosts of the past

Last weekend, I had the opportunity to catch the Wooster Group’s The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons” at St. Ann’s Warehouse. The staging is a remounting of a production … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – WHITE NOISE: Suzan-Lori Parks as ambitious and provocative, as ever

Last night, Suzan-Lori Parks’ highly anticipated new play White Noise opened Off-Broadway at the Public Theater’s Anspacher Theater. At its heart, the play tells the story of Leo (played by Daveed Diggs, a … Continue Reading →