THE HANGOVER REPORT – The stage adaptation of THE KITE RUNNER is mired by dutiful, play-by-play storytelling

One of the first entries of the nascent 2022-2023 Broadway season is Matthew Spangler’s stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s seminal 2003 novel The Kite Runner, which I caught this past … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The sublime Encores! revival of INTO THE WOODS shimmers even more eloquently on the Great White Way

Two months ago, I effused ever so passionately about the Encores! revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s beloved musical Into the Woods at New York City Center. Thankfully, the … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The astonishing Dylan & McPherson musical GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY returns to Broadway for a limited time

Last week, I had a chance to return to Bob Dylan and Conor McPherson’s astonishing musical Girl from the North Country, which returns to the Belasco Theatre for a limited … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The ageless Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse return to Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE

This past week at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, I caught Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway revival of Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive starring the ageless and ever-distinctive Mary-Louise … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The hilarious and incomparable Billy Crystal is the raison d’être of his own meager musical adaptation of MR. SATURDAY NIGHT

This week at Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre, I caught the hilarious and incomparable Billy Crystal in Mr. Saturday Night, the musical adaptation of the 1992 movie of the same name (also … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The hilarity doesn’t cease in Selina Fillinger’s shallow farce POTUS: OR, BEHIND EVERY GREAT DUMBASS ARE SEVEN WOMEN TRYING TO KEEP HIM ALIVE

Also this past weekend, I caught Selina Fillinger’s new Broadway comedy POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, a relatively last minute entry … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Lileana Blain-Cruz’s timely, outsized revival of Thornton Wilder’s THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH leans in on the work’s operatic absurdity

This past weekend at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, I attended a performance of Lincoln Center Theater’s Broadway revival of The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder (who is best … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Superstars Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga headline Sam Gold’s confounding, curiously blasé production of MACBETH

This week at the Longacre Theatre, the highly anticipated revival of Macbeth arrived on the Great White Way, marking the opening of the final entry of the rollercoaster 2021-2022 Broadway … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The amiable Beanie Feldstein leads a streamlined FUNNY GIRL but can’t erase the indelible memories of La Streisand

Last night, I attended the hotly anticipated Broadway revival of Funny Girl at the August Wilson Theatre. Talks of a revival have been simmering for about a decade now with a … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Michael R. Jackson’s deeply personal Pulitzer Prize-winning A STRANGE LOOP makes the jump to Broadway, triumphantly

Last night, Michael R. Jackson’s singular “self-referential” musical A Strange Loop opened on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre. The production comes by way of Off-Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons (in a co-production … Continue Reading →