THE HANGOVER REPORT – The superb 50th anniversary revival of THE BOYS IN THE BAND proves that the seminal play remains relevant

Last night, the first Broadway show of the 2018-2019 season opened at the Booth Theatre. Regardless of which season it falls in, Joe Mantello’s superb 50th anniversary revival of Mart Crowley’s … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – City Ballet concludes a ravishingly varied retrospective for Jerome Robbins’ centennial

This May at the David H. Koch Theater, New York City Ballet pulled out all the stops to celebrate Jerome Robbins’ centennial. All-in-all, the revered ballet company performed six different … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – HAMILTON inspires and engages 1,300 public high school students, in various ways

This week, 1,300 students from New York-area public high schools were invited to spend the day partaking in a workshop at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. That’s right, it’s the venue … Continue Reading →

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 →