THE HANGOVER REPORT – Elevator Repair Service’s EVERYONE’S FINE WITH VIRGINIA WOOLF is a total hoot for the initiated

Elevator Repair Service has emerged over the years as one of New York’s premiere purveyors of experimental theater. As evidenced by their steady output of well-received avant-garde productions – they’re … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Maly Drama Theatre’s LOVE AND INTRIGUE, a Russian adaptation of a Schiller play, is a stylish slow burn

Last night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater, I caught the Maly Drama Theatre’s staging of Love and Intrigue, a Russian adaptation of a play by Friedrich von … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Angela Hanks’ quirky parody WILDER GONE is one of the funniest shows in New York

Last night at the Wild Project, I caught the second offering of this year’s Summerworks – the annual festival of new plays curated by the folks at Clubbed Thumb – … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Nilo Cruz’s melodramatic EXQUISITA AGONÍA is lost in translation

This past weekend, I caught a performance of Exquisita Agonía, the latest by Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Nilo Cruz (he won the coveted prize with Anna in the Tropics), which runs in repertory at … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The hilarious, deceptively slight RANDY WRITES A NOVEL digs deeper than you’d think

Last night, I caught the final performance of the deceptively slight one-man comedy Randy Writes a Novel, an hilarious import from Australia (the show had made a number of international stops en … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Lauren Yee’s THE GREAT LEAP is entertaining but overly ambitious

This weekend, I caught Lauren Yee’s enjoyable if overly ambitious and eager new play The Great Leap courtesy of Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company at Atlantic Stage 2. I was a fan of … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Stephen Adly Guirgis’s jazzy, character-driven OUR LADY OF 121ST STREET is sensationally revived

Last night, I caught up with Signature Theatre Company’s sensational revival of Our Lady of 121st Street by Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Stephen Adly Guirgis. I had last seen the character-driven play – which depicts a … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – ERC’s TCHAIKOVSKY: NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART lets the tortured composer’s work do the talking, movingly

I recently took in a performance of Ensemble for the Romantic Century’s Tchaikovsky: None but the Lonely Heart, the company’s final production of its 2017-2018 season, at the Pershing Square Signature … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Anthony Giardina’s DAN CODY’S YACHT is a Shavian treatise, for better or worse

One of the best plays to open in New York in recent seasons was Anthony Giardina’s politically-minded The City of Conversation (starring the late, great, and much-missed Jan Maxwell) staged by … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Lily Thorne’ limp PEACE FOR MARY FRANCES meanders, despite the presence of the great Lois Smith

This weekend, I caught up with The New Group’s Peace for Mary Frances at the Pershing Square Signature Center. I really wanted to like Lily Thorne’s limp new play concerning … Continue Reading →