THE HANGOVER REPORT – Duncan Sheik’s musical adaptation of BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE is a dreamy tone poem that resuscitates an era

Last night, Duncan Sheik, Jonathan Marc Sherman, and Amanda Green’s Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice opened Off-Broadway at the Pershing Square Signature Center via the New Group. If you haven’t … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The spirited ROMEO & BERNADETTE is a guilty musical pleasure despite a barebones production

This past weekend at the Mezzanine Theatre at A.R.T./New York Theatres, I caught Amas Musical Theatre’s Off-Broadway premiere of Romeo & Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona and Brooklyn (the piece was … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – In Simon Stone’s new adaptation, Rose Byrne is a MEDEA for our time, co-starring a vulnerable Bobby Cannavele

Last night at the Harvey Theater at BAM Strong, I caught Simon Stone’s loose adaptation of Medea. Mr. Stone is emerging as one of the can’t miss auteurs of the … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The singular Kathryn Hunter captivates as a re-gendered TIMON OF ATHENS

Earlier this week, I caught Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens courtesy of Theatre for a New Audience – in a co-production with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Washington, DC’s Shakespeare Theatre Company … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Four tough broads: Michelle Dooley Mahon’s THE SCOURGE & Richard Maxwell’s QUEENS ROW

Over the last week, I caught two productions that featured women toughing out exceedingly difficult situations. One involves the true story of a woman who all but dedicates her life … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The talent-filled EMOJILAND is lots of fun but as two-dimensional as its namesake

Over at the Duke on 42 Street, we have the new Off-Broadway musical Emojiland: The Musical by the writing duo of Keith Harrison and Laura Schein (together, they wrote the show’s score and … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The long-running London hit THE WOMAN IN BLACK gets an intimate staging at the McKittrick Hotel

Last night at the McKittrick Hotel, I finally attended a performance of Stephen Mallatratt’s adaptation of Susan Hill’s ghost story The Woman in Black. At 30-years-old, the play – which tells the … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – James & Jerome’s THE CONVERSATIONALISTS is the storytelling duo’s most theatrical and elaborate creation to date

James Harrison Monaco and Jerome Ellis – together, simply known as James & Jerome – have emerged in recent years as one of the most idiosyncratic and compelling storytellers in … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Eboni Booth’s intensely naturalistic PARIS unsettlingly depicts the desperation of minimum wagers

Last night, Paris by Eboni Booth (who first came to my attention as an actress in Dance Nation and Fulfillment Center, both exciting new plays) opened Off-Broadway at the bunker-like, subterranean Atlantic Stage … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – UNDER THE RADAR: Reviews, Batch 2

Happily, my week proceeded with continued Under the Radar immersion. Here is my second batch of reviews. NOT I Touretteshero & Battersea Arts Centre (U.K.) On paper, staging Samuel Beckett’s Not I … Continue Reading →