VIEWPOINTS – 2022 IN REVIEW: Theater, Music, and Dance

2022 saw live performances continue to emerge from Covid’s comprehensive grasp. In no particular order, here are my thematically grouped picks for the most notable happenings in the performing arts … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Jeremy Pope is utterly magnetic as Basquiat in Anthony McCarten’s otherwise clunky biodrama THE COLLABORATION

Last night, Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of The Collaboration by Anthony McCarten “opened” on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (last night’s opening night performance was actually cancelled at … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The hugely entertaining SOME LIKE IT HOT rides on an unstoppable wave of nostalgia and refreshed wisdom

Last night, the hugely entertaining new stage musical adaptation of Some Like It Hot opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre. Based on the classic 1959 Billy Wilder film of the … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Audra McDonald is magnetic in Adrienne Kennedy’s slippery OHIO STATE MURDERS, the playwright’s long-awaited Broadway debut

There was much to celebrate last night. First off, the evening marked the Broadway opening of Adrienne Kennedy’s Ohio State Murders at the recently christened and renovated James Earl Jones … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – THE MUSEUM OF BROADWAY is an immersive, playfully Instagrammable overview of Broadway’s past and present

Last weekend, I was able to visit and experience the new Museum of Broadway. Located just next door to the Lyceum Theatre on 45th Street (where the Tony-winning A Strange … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The new jukebox musical A BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL is standard, crowd-pleasing fare (at best)

Last night, yet another jukebox musical arrived on Broadway when A Beautiful Nose: The Neil Diamond Musical opened at the Broadhurst Theatre. The musical follows in a long line of … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Jordan E. Cooper’s speculative AIN’T NO MO’ uses unforgiving satire to crack open the Black experience

This past week, Jordan E. Cooper’s Ain’t No Mo’ opened on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre. The work was previously seen Off-Broadway in 2019 at the Public Theater. The biting … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – In the smart and sensationally energizing & JULIET, Broadway has found a worthy successor to MAMMA MIA!

Earlier this fall, the new musical & Juliet opened on Broadway at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. Having proved a solid hit across the pond in London’s West End, the jukebox … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – On Broadway, KPOP exchanges its immersive edge and raw backstage drama for pop concert exuberance

Last night, KPOP opened at Circle in the Square, making the leap to the Great White Way after making a splash Off-Broadway five years ago in an audaciously immersive production … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – On Broadway, a pair of impressive solo performances that grapple with mortality: Mike Birbiglia in THE OLD MAN AND THE POOL and Jefferson Mays in A CHRISTMAS CAROL

This fall on Broadway, theater fans have the opportunity to take in a pair of solo performances that grapple with mortality. I’m happy to report that both absolutely sing. Here … Continue Reading →