THE HANGOVER REPORT – Over at Sag Harbor, Bay Street Theater mounts a solid summer revival of Frank Wildhorn’s BONNIE & CLYDE

This past weekend, I found myself in the Hamptons and had the opportunity to attend Bay Street Theater’s solid revival of Bonnie and Clyde in Sag Harbor. If you haven’t … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Bubba Weiler’s WELL, I’LL LET YOU GO is an exquisitely nuanced portrait of grief and doubt, by way of “Our Town”

One of the finest plays to emerge from these summer months is Bubba Weiler’s new work Well, I’ll Let You Go, which is currently playing an extended run at The … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Cynthia Erivo is transcendent in Hollywood Bowl’s amped up presentation of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

Last weekend in Los Angeles, I had the great opportunity of attending the starry production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s iconic rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, which played … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The new Off-Broadway parody GINGER TWINSIES campily, hilariously sends up “The Parent Trap”

This week at the Orpheum Theatre in the East Village, I was able to catch up with Ginger Twinsies, Kevin Zak’s Off-Broadway spoof of the 1998 cinematic reboot of The … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Irish Rep once again locates the vital human pulse of Conor McPherson’s masterpiece THE WEIR

This summer, Off-Broadway’s Irish Repertory Theatre has brought back its rock solid production of Conor McPherson’s The Weir (the current run is the third time the Chelsea-based theater company has mounted the … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – In TA-DA!, Josh Sharp existentially expounds on coming out and a near death experienc via Power Point slides

This week, Josh Sharp’s ta-da! opened Off-Broadway at the Greenwich House Theater. In essence, Sharp’s new show is a playful yet rigorous solo turn along the lines of Carl Holder’s Out of Order, … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Betsy Wolfe is winning as the trailblazing Miracle Mop inventor in the otherwise pedestrian new musical JOY

This week, Joy: A True New Musical opened Off-Broadway at the Laura Pels Theatre (typically the Off-Broadway home of Roundabout Theatre Company, which is renting the space this summer to … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Money can’t buy everything, hope the Off-Broadway satires DILARIA and POLISHING SHAKESPEARE

Currently Off-Broadway, you’ll find a pair of satires critiquing the extent to which money shapes and influences our lives — both culturally and socially — in today’s world. As always, … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – In a refreshing change of pace, Charles Randolph-Wright gives us an unabashed love story in DUKE & ROYA

This summer, in a refreshing change of pace from the status quo, Charles Randolph-Wright has given playgoers an outright, unabashed love story of the likes of classic Hollywood films like … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Processing personal crises through performance: Crystal Skillman’s OPEN and Carl Holder’s OUT OF ORDER

Currently on the boards far from the bright lights of the Great White Way are a pair of dramas that use the intimacy of the solo show format to process … Continue Reading →