THE HANGOVER REPORT – The stage version of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY seriously attempts to bring horror to Broadway, and it largely succeeds

Travis A. Knight and Cher Álvarez in “Paranormal Activity” at the August Wilson Theatre (photo by Matthew Murphy). And just like that, we’ve officially commenced the 2026-2027 Broadway theater season … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Breezy summer fare: The Main Stem outing of CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY and striking while it’s hot with a HEATED RIVALRY musical parody

Those of you looking for breezy summer entertainment without much emotional nor intellectual investment need not look further than a pair of options — the Main Stem outing of Celebrity … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Debbie Allen helms an unfussy and sturdily-acted Broadway revival of August Wilson’s JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE

My 2025/2026 Broadway theatergoing season officially came to a close when I recently attended the highly anticipated revival of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at the Ethel Barrymore … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – David Lindsay-Abaire’s THE BALUSTERS is as illuminating in its truth-saying as it is hilarious in its shade-throwing

Earlier this week, I had the great opportunity to catch up with David Lindsay-Abaire’s The Balusters, the final new play to open during the 2025-2026 season. Essentially, Lindsay-Abaire’s latest is … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – THE LOST BOYS and BEACHES: The requisite film-to-stage adaptations arrive on Broadway, and they’re better than you’d think

The last week or so saw the arrival of two film-to-stage adaptations to this relatively timid Broadway season. Despite some wide-ranging word of mouth, they’re actually better than you’d think. … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – David Auburn’s PROOF returns to Broadway in a sensitively-acted production starring a beguiling Ayo Edebiri

Last week, I had the great opportunity to catch up with Thomas Kail’s sensitively-acted revival of David Auburn’s Proof starring Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle in their Broadway debuts, alongside … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – On Broadway, THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW is giddily revived in a thoroughly downtown manner

Last night, Roundabout Theatre Company’s highly anticipated production of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show opened on Broadway at what has to be the ideal venue for the cult musical, … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Bringing parodic joy to Broadway: Transporting SCHMIGADOON! to the Nederlander, TITANÍQUE docks at the St. James

This spring on Broadway — in what seems to be reactionary to the fraught times we live in — campy, parodic joy has become the mode du jour, as evidenced … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Kelli O’Hara and Rose Byrne strike comic gold in Roundabout’s bubbly revival of Noël Coward’s FALLEN ANGELS

Last night at Broadway’s newly refreshed Todd Haimes Theatre, Roundabout Theatre Company unveiled a rare revival of Noël Coward‘s early-career play Fallen Angels. The production, which emphatically strikes comic gold, … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – On Broadway, uneven portraits of misunderstood outlaws: Adrien Brody in THE FEAR OF 13, Jon Bernthal in DOG DAY AFTERNOON

With the arrival of the film-to-stage adaptations of The Fear of 13 and Dog Day Afternoon — the former an intimate documentary, the latter an Al Pacino vehicle — Broadway … Continue Reading →