VIEWPOINTS – Engrossing political theater: Josh Fox’s THE EDGE OF NATURE and Panti Bliss’s IF THESE WIGS COULD TALK

Over the past week or so, I’ve been engrossed by a handful of works of political theater. On the heels of attending Dark Noon at St. Ann’s Warehouse on Friday … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – DARK NOON is at once a subversively satiric romp through America’s past and a sobering reckoning

For its summer offering, St. Ann’s Warehouse is presenting the New York premiere of Dark Noon. Created by Danish director Tue Biering and co-directed and choreographed by South African theater-maker Nhlanhla … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Little Island begins summer performances with Twyla Tharp’s gloriously unruly HOW LONG BLUES

This summer, Little Island is coming alive with robust live performance programming at its wonderfully-designed amphitheater. Starting things off this June was the premiere of the latest evening-length work by … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Into the woods with reid tang’s ISABEL, a surreal dive into the unsettling world gender fluidity

Last night, reid tang’s new play Isabel opened literally on the stage of the Playhouse of Abrons Arts Center in the Lower East Side. A co-presentation by National Asian American … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – ABT launches its summer season with the welcome return of John Cranko’s reliably dramatic ONEGIN

This week, American Ballet Theatre launched its month-long summer season at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center with the welcome return of John Cranko’s Onegin. First staged in 1965 for … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Brits Off-Broadway continues at 59E59 Theaters with a pair of solo shows: Emily Woof in BLIZZARD and Tim Marriott in WATSON

The past few weeks have seen the Brits Off Broadway festival in full swing at 59E59 Theaters. Here are my thoughts on two recent solo shows to grace the stages … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Paper Mill Playhouse serves up a crowd-pleasing revival of the popular BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL

I also recently had the opportunity to take a field trip out to Millburn, NJ to catch Paper Mill Playhouse’s revival of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. The popular jukebox … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Under Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the MET ORCHESTRA shows off its range in an operatic program of unsettled love

This past weekend, the mighty orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera returned to Carnegie Hall to perform an off-season concert informed by a trio of distinctive operas with overarching themes of … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Raja Feather Kelly’s THE FIRES pungently, poetically excavates the burden Black queerness and the devastation of love

This past week, I had the opportunity to catch up with Raja Feather Kelly’s The Fires by Raja Feather Kelly, courtesy of Off-Broadway’s small but mighty Soho Rep, which over … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – In the wobbly, forcefully-acted THE WELKIN, Lucy Kirkwood explores justice and power vis-à-vis housekeeping women

Last night, Atlantic Theater Company’s production of The Welkin by Lucy Kirkwood — a British playwright perhaps best known for penning such well-received plays as Chimerica and The Children — opened Off-Broadway at the Linda Gross … Continue Reading →