THE HANGOVER REPORT – The Wooster Group’s THE B-SIDE still conjures ghosts of the past

Last weekend, I had the opportunity to catch the Wooster Group’s The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons” at St. Ann’s Warehouse. The staging is a remounting of a production … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – WHITE NOISE: Suzan-Lori Parks as ambitious and provocative, as ever

Last night, Suzan-Lori Parks’ highly anticipated new play White Noise opened Off-Broadway at the Public Theater’s Anspacher Theater. At its heart, the play tells the story of Leo (played by Daveed Diggs, a … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Influences collide in Tori Sampson’s exuberant IF PRETTY HURTS UGLY MUST BE A MUTHAFUCKA

I recently had a chance to catch up with Tori Sampson’s lively new play If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muthafucka at Playwrights Horizons. Set in the West African village … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Chisa Hutchinson’s spare, tender SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY is lifted by Jay Mazyck’s disarming performance

This weekend at the newly-renovated Theatre Row, I caught the New York premiere of Chisa Hutchinson’s Surely Goodness and Mercy, courtesy of Off-Broadway’s Keen Company. Set in Newark, NJ, the play tells the … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Michael McKeever’s AFTER efficiently, mechanically examines marriage, bullying, and gun culture

Last night, Michael McKeever’s new play After opened Off-Broadway at 59E59 Theaters, in a co-production with Penguin Repertory Theatre. On the surface, the work calls to mind Yasmina Reza’s Tony-winning play … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Plexus Polaire’s ASHES beguiles via haunting, expertly rendered puppetry

I’ve long had a fascination for puppetry. There’s something intensely theatrical about taking inanimate objects and injecting them with the spirit and spontaneity of life itself. This past January as part … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Haruna Lee’s SUICIDE FOREST makes for terrifically strange, emotionally naked theater

As an Asian American, I’ve gone out of my way to seek out works by people like myself, whose stories are unfortunately rarely represented in the theater, by and large. … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Madeleine George’s masterful satire HURRICANE DIANE maximizes hilarity and heartache

This week, I had the opportunity to catch up with Off-Broadway’s Hurricane Diane, Madeleine George’s latest play at New York Theatre Workshop and a co-production with Women’s Project Theater. Ms. George … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater’s eagerly awaited ALICE BY HEART is a muddled, misjudged affair

This past weekend, I caught the eagerly awaited production of Alice by Heart, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater’s musical spin on Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. The team attained considerable and deserved … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s FLEABAG is incendiary and as brilliant as they say it is

This past weekend, I caught the revival of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s career-making Fleabag (the show inspired a hit television series, launching Ms. Waller-Bridge into stardom), which is only now making its … Continue Reading →