THE HANGOVER REPORT – Tracy Letts’ LINDA VISTA arrives on Broadway, Steppenwolf realness intact

Amidst an unusually crowded Broadway season of high profile new plays is Steppenwolf Theater Company’s production of Tracy Letts’ latest work Linda Vista, which opened last week on Broadway at the … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Memory in motion: Paul David Young’s ALL MY FATHERS and Tennessee Williams’ THE GLASS MENAGERIE

This past weekend, I caught back-to-back performances in the East Village – Austin Pendleton and Peter Bloch’s revival of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie at the Wild Project and Paul … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Will Arbery’s riveting HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING paints a startlingly lucid portrait of the Christian right

Last night, Will Arbery’s Heroes of the Fourth Turning opened Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons. When I caught Mr. Arbery’s previous play Plano last year at Summerworks – Clubbed Thumb’s excellent annual festival of adventurous … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Jeremy O. Harris’s uncompromising, guttural SLAVE PLAY ferociously opens on Broadway

Surely destined to be one of the most provocative offerings in many a season is Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play, which ferociously opened last night on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Satoshi Miyagi uses Japanese noh tradition to bring poetry to ANTIGONE, to mesmerizing effect

One of the toughest tickets to come by currently in town is Shizuoka Performing Arts Center’s adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone at the Park Avenue Armory (the rest of the run is sold … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Jeff Augustin’s THE NEW ENGLANDERS is thoughtfully of-the-moment although not quite satisfying

This week, the Manhattan Theatre Club production of Jeff Augustin’s The New Englanders opened Off-Broadway at New York City Center. Set in a quiet, upper middle class New England town, … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The ecstatic FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME effortlessly makes the leap to Broadway, its free-flowing exuberance and unalloyed goodwill intact

Last night, Freestyle Love Supreme – which is also the name of the outfit (co-founded by Lin-Manuel Miranda) that performs the show – opened at the Booth Theatre, making the leap from Off-Broadway … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Robert Schenkkan’s underwhelming THE GREAT SOCIETY opens on the Great White Way, continuing the LBJ saga

Last night, Robert Schenkkan’s The Great Society opened on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre. The play is the sequel to Mr. Schenkkan’s Tony-winning play All the Way from a … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Two young playwrights go to extremes: Anna Moench’s MOTHERS and Alexis Scheer’s DEAR DEAD DRUG LORD

Over the last week, I had the opportunity to be exposed to two new voices – playwrights Anna Moench and Alexis Scheer – who in their respective Off-Broadway plays aren’t … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – WHY?: Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne return to Brooklyn to gently question why we do theater

The centerpiece of a city-wide celebration of Peter Brook’s monumental contribution to contemporary theater is the mounting of his latest play Why? at Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn (the … Continue Reading →