THE HANGOVER REPORT – George C. Wolfe’s entertaining, high voltage revival of O’Neill’s THE ICEMAN COMETH, headlined by a magnetic Denzel Washington, closes out the Broadway season

The 2017-2018 Broadway season came to a close last night with the opening of George C. Wolfe’s revival of Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh, headlined by charismatic movie star Denzel … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Shaw’s SAINT JOAN is revived on Broadway, solidly if a bit on the tepid side

So the Shawfest continues, and I’m not talking about the one in Niagara-on-the-Lake. On the heels of Bedlam’s penetrating pseudo-revisionist Off-Broadway production of Pygmalion and Lincoln Center Theater’s major, meticulous … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The sensational Broadway revival of Tom Stoppard’s TRAVESTIES is hilarious, intoxicating

Last night, the sensational Broadway revival of Tom Stoppard’s Tony-winning 1974 play Travesties opened at the American Airlines Theater. The Roundabout Theatre Company production is a remount of Patrick Marber’s … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The fleet-footed jukebox musical SUMMER is an enjoyable, well-oiled machine

Last night, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. The musical is shaped in the same mold as two of Broadway’s more successful jukebox musicals, Jersey … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The exhilarating HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD opens on Broadway, and there’s real magic in it

Last night, one of the most hotly anticipated shows in many a Broadway season opened at the significantly re-designed Lyric Theater. Yep, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – An unexpected PYGMALION-fest: A sterling MY FAIR LADY and a penetrating Bedlam treatment

Perhaps inadvertently, New York has been having quite a mini-Pygmalion festival this winter. It started a few weeks ago with two very different one-act operatic adaptations (one by Donizetti, the other by … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The Broadway revival of CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD is dated, albeit urgently performed

This week saw the opening of the first Broadway revival of Mark Medoff’s 1980 play Children of a Lesser God at Studio 54. So how has the play held up? Well, the … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Rodgers and Hammerstein’s CAROUSEL is richly and rewardingly revived on Broadway

One of the most formative theater experiences for me as a young theatergoer was experiencing, as a teenager, Nicholas Hytner’s transporting 1994 National Theatre revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel on … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – MEAN GIRLS opens on Broadway, and it’s smartly crafted and winningly performed

Last night, the musical adaptation of Tina Fey’s seminal 2004 film Mean Girls opened on Broadway at the August Wilson Theatre. Even if it doesn’t reach the the giddy heights of the … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – ROCKTOPIA is a rock-meets-classical music collision that counts on your endorphins being released

Last night at the appropriately blandly-named Broadway Theatre, I caught Rocktopia, a tourist-friendly concert that mashes up rock with classical music. Although the production is advertised as an opportunity to hear the … Continue Reading →