VIEWPOINTS – DRILL & ANTIGONE IN FERGUSON: Reaching across time, space, and genres to make a point about gun violence

This weekend, I experienced two novel, multidisciplinary projects that reached across time and space to make their respective points about this country’s seemingly unresolvable problem with gun violence. First up … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Encores! Off-Center’s inspired revival of PROMENADE was a thrilling and telling wild ride

This week at New York City Center, I caught the first of two performances of Encores! Off-Center’s revival of Promenade. The musical has had an interesting life, commencing Off-Off-Broadway in 1965 … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The starry Encores! Off-Center revival of WORKING pays moving tribute to New York Center’s human building blocks

I recently had a chance to catch the Encores! Off-Center revival of Working, a gentle musical reminder of and a loving tribute to the workers upon which our great society … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Grace McLean’s experimental IN THE GREEN, a mystical and unlikely musical experience

I recently had a chance to catch Grace McLean’s Off-Broadway musical In the Green at the Claire Tow Theater, courtesy of Lincoln Center Theater. Ms. McLean is perhaps best known … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Donald Margulies’ new family drama LONG LOST is solid but somewhat histrionic

I recently caught Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of Donald Margulies’ Long Lost at New York City Center, which closed over Pride weekend. This latest play by the Pulitzer Prize winner (for Dinner with … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Pride Performances, Part 2: An escape from the intensity but not the spirit of Pride weekend

Over World Pride, I continued to indulge in LGBT-themed performances that have sprung up from in various forms across New York City. For some – including myself – catching these … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Kate Hamill’s stage adaptation of LITTLE WOMEN exudes warmth and a genuine interest in telling the story

This week, I was able to catch up with Kate Hamill’s big-hearted Off-Broadway stage adaption of Louisa May Alcott’s forward thinking classic novel Little Women, which closes this weekend at the … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Pride Performances, Part 1: An eclectic bunch that that’s representative of how far we’ve come

If you’re gay, then really the place to be this week is New York City, when and where World Pride festivities not so coincidentally collide with the 50thanniversary of the … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Daniel Glenn’s inpsired KING PHILIP’S HEAD […] functions as both biting allegorical satire and unfortunate origins story

Last night at the Wild Project in the East Village, I caught Daniel Glenn’s new comedy King Philip’s Head Is Still on that Pike Just Down the Road, the final offering of … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Aurélien Bory’s ESPÆCE is hybrid performance in the truest sense of the word

This past weekend, the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House played host to Compagnie 111’s production of Espœce. The piece is hybrid performance in the truest sense of the word … Continue Reading →