THE HANGOVER REPORT – The overstuffed SHUFFLE ALONG brings the Broadway season to a rousing close

Last night, the ambitious, highly anticipated Shuffle Along, or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed opened at the Music Box, closing the 2015/2016 Broadway … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Roundabout’s haunted LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT gets into your skull all over again

Watch out, the Tyrones are back in town and they’re determined to burrow into your skull, once again. Last nnight, Jonathan Kent’s breathtakingly-acted Broadway revival of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Parody on Broadway: Isn’t it time for something new?

Last night, I attended a performance of the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (abridged) (RECOMMENDED) at the Folger Theatre in Washington, DC. This gifted comic trio … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – A glorious mini-ballet fails to lift the otherwise generic TUCK EVERLASTING

Tonight marks the Broadway opening of Tuck Everlasting, a new musical based on the young adult novel by Natalie Babbitt about a girl’s encounter with a never-aging family. The musical, … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Nassim Soleimanpour leads both actor and audiences down the rabbit hole in his trippy WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT

Every Monday night at the Westside Theatre, you’ll see a different actor taking on Nassim Soleimanpour’s singular White Rabbit Red Rabbit. The central gimmick of this trippy, uber-meta play is … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The Pearl’s THE DINGDONG delivers on its promise of mayhem and laughter

Yesterday evening, I caught a performance of The Dingdong at the Pearl. After having just seen the intense (albeit excellent) downer A Girl is a Half-formed Thing that same afternoon, … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Jessie Mueller wows with her own brand of pies in WAITRESS

Tonight Waitress, the anticipated and crowd-pleasing new musical based on the movie of the same name about the challenges faced by a pie-making waitress, opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Aoife Duffin’s ferocious performance rivets in the stage adaptation of A GIRL IS A HALF-FORMED THING

This afternoon, I caught a performance of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, a stage adaptation of the novel by Eimear McBride, at Baryshnikov Arts Center. The story, which takes … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – James Levine leads an ideal account of Mozart’s DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL

John Dexter’s utterly charming 1979 production of Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail returned last night to the Metropolitan Opera featuring some sublime work from Maestro James Levine and the … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Two of 2014’s biggest theater success stories start to find lives outside of New York

Two of 2014’s biggest theater success stories – Robert Schenkkan’s Tony Award-winning All the Way and Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Flick – couldn’t be more different, except perhaps in … Continue Reading →