VIEWPOINTS – Shakespeare in Brooklyn: KING LEAR at BAM and THE WINTER’S TALE at TFANA

Two of this winter’s most high profile productions of Shakespeare plays were not to be found in Manhattan, but rather in Brooklyn. Indeed, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s anticipated staging of King … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The Broadway revival of CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD is dated, albeit urgently performed

This week saw the opening of the first Broadway revival of Mark Medoff’s 1980 play Children of a Lesser God at Studio 54. So how has the play held up? Well, the … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – The kids aren’t alright: Vox Motus’s FLIGHT and Lindsey Ferrentino’s THIS FLAT EARTH

A recent crop of shows in the past month or so have curiously depicted kids under severe duress. Alex Lubischer’s play Bobbie Clearly and the Bengsons’ musical The Lucky Ones both feature communities coping … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Rodgers and Hammerstein’s CAROUSEL is richly and rewardingly revived on Broadway

One of the most formative theater experiences for me as a young theatergoer was experiencing, as a teenager, Nicholas Hytner’s transporting 1994 National Theatre revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel on … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Tolstoy onstage, unexpectedly: Gob Squad’s WAR AND PEACE and Eifman’s ANNA KARENINA

Tolstoy’s works are undisputed masterworks of world literature. Two novels in particular, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are towering achievements, panoramic works that are at once intense psychological portraits. Over the last … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – MEAN GIRLS opens on Broadway, and it’s smartly crafted and winningly performed

Last night, the musical adaptation of Tina Fey’s seminal 2004 film Mean Girls opened on Broadway at the August Wilson Theatre. Even if it doesn’t reach the the giddy heights of the … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Abby Rosebrock’s DIDO OF IDAHO at EST is a crackling new play

Yesterday, I caught Abby Rosebrock’s Dido of Idaho, a crackling new play at the indispensable Ensemble Studio Theatre. One of the great pleasures of seeing as much performances as I do is … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Hayley Mills headlines the sophomoric comedy PARTY FACE

I recently had a chance to take in Isobel Mahon’s new comedy Party Face in an Off-Broadway production at New York City Center (the show is not to be confused with a … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Alex Lubischer’s BOBBIE CLEARLY is flawed but introduces a promising new voice

Last night marked the opening night of young playwright Alex Lubischer’s Bobbie Clearly at the Black Box Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre. The play had previously played Chicago’s Steep … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Plácido Domingo and a glorious cast make a strong case for Verdi’s LUISA MILLER at the Met

Yesterday evening, I caught the Metropolitan Opera’s triumphant revival of Elijah Moshinsky’s handsome, very traditional 2001 production of Verdi’s Luisa Miller (although the staging reads older than its 17 years). It’s fitting that such … Continue Reading →