THE HANGOVER REPORT – Daniel Fish radically re-envisions an OKLAHOMA! stripped of artifice, and it’s bloody brilliant

Tonight at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, I caught Daniel Fish’s radical Off-Broadway reinterpretation (deconstruction?) of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s seminal musical Oklahoma! Long story short, it’s a stunner. What Mr. … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – James Hindman’s POPCORN FALLS is a pleasant if generic farce, for two

This week, James Hindman’s comic two-hander Popcon Falls opened Off-Broadway at the Davenport Theater. Using just two actors in a dizzying number of roles, the play tells the madcap story … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Circa’s HUMANS & SITI’s THE BACCHAE: Joseph V. Melillo’s final Next Wave Festival gets off to a rousing start at BAM

It was with bittersweet sentiment that I embarked on immersing myself in this fall’s Next Wave Festival, which commenced performances last week at BAM’s various venues in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Dylan and McPherson’s GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY makes strange music that penetrates the soul

Finally, a serious new musical this season worth fussing over. That would be the Public Theater’s production of Conor McPherson’s singular jukebox musical Girl from the North Country, which uses the Bob … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Bill Irwin gives a masterful lecture ON BECKETT, from a clown’s perspective

Samuel Beckett is one of the seminal theater and literary artists of the 20th-Century. He’s also one of the most difficult to get right in performance. That’s because Beckett’s works are at … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Heidi Schreck’s WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME is an impassioned cry for the reexamination of the systems that govern us

This past weekend, Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me opened Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop. Despite its critical eye, the work arrives as an inspiring, soothsaying tonic during a … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The dated A LOVELY SUNDAY FOR CREVE COEUR is lesser, perhaps unsalvageable, Tennessee Williams

I recently had to a chance to catch a rare revival of Tennessee Williams’ A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur Off-Broadway at the Theatre at St. Clement’s, courtesy of La Femme Theatre … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – ERC’s languorous BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP uniquely attempts to conjure Emily Dickinson’s inner life, via music

It’s difficult to critique a production like Ensemble for the Romantic Century’s Because I Could Not Stop: An Encounter with Emily Dickinson, which opened Off-Broadway last week at the Pershing Square Signature … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Bedlam’s UNCLE ROMEO VANYA JULIET is a stimulating experiment, but only for those in the know

Last night at the Mezzanine Theatre at A.R.T./New York Theatres, I attended a performance of Bedlam’s latest performative dissection of a classic text – or rather, in this case, classic texts. … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Stefano Massini’s straight-shooting INTRACTABLE WOMAN is brought to theatrical life in a striking, elegant staging

Last night, I attended a performance of PlayCo’s production of Stefano Massini’s docudrama (translated by Paula Wing) Intractable Woman: A Theatrical Memo of Anna Politkovskaya at 122 Community Center’s Second Floor Theater. … Continue Reading →