THE HANGOVER REPORT – Bertie Carvel and Jonny Lee Miller are sensational in James Graham’s flashy INK

Last night, James Graham’s Ink opened on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre via Manhattan Theatre Club. Set in London in 1969, Ink tells the story of how young Rupert Murdoch and a scrappy … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The Mad Ones’ MRS. MURRAY’S MENAGERIE is a triumph in meticulously crafted realism

I recently had the opportunity to pay a visit to the Ars Nova production of The Mad Ones’ Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie at the Greenwich House Theater. I’ve seen only one other production … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Tim Blake Nelson’s SOCRATES overflows with riches, led by the riveting Michael Stuhlbarg

Last night, I caught Tim Blake Nelson’s new play Socrates Off-Broadway at the Public Theater. As the title suggests, the play centers around Socrates, the influential Greek philosopher whose incessant questioning of … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – A magnetic Adam Driver combusts in the Broadway revival of BURN THIS by Lanford Wilson

This week, the Broadway revival of Burn This by Lanford Wilson opened at the Hudson Theatre. Although I’m familiar with much of Mr. Wilson’s output (Talley’s Folly, Fifth of July, Balm in Gilead, … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Irish Rep mounts an utterly ideal revival of Sean O’Casey’s JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK

Last weekend, I caught a matinee performance of Irish Repertory Theatre’s Off-Broadway revival of Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock, one of the best known and well-regarded plays in the … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Thaddeus Phillips’ 17 BORDER CROSSINGS is a visually ravishing examination of man-made borders

Last night, Thaddeus Phillips’ solo show 17 Border Crossings opened Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop. I had missed the production, a unique hybrid between monologue and performance piece, when it played … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Isabelle Huppert was devastating and compulsively watchable in Florian Zeller’s THE MOTHER

This weekend at the Linda Gross Theater, I caught the final Off-Broadway performance of Florian Zeller’s The Mother, which enjoyed a sold out run courtesy of Atlantic Theater Company. Although not … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Renée Fleming and Ben Winshaw are superb in NORMA JEANE BAKER OF TROY, Anne Carson’s genre-straddling concoction

It’s hard to assess a piece like Anne Carson’s Norma Jeane Baker of Troy, which marks the first theatrical run at the 500-seat Griffin Theater at The Shed, the brand new performing arts … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Daniel Fish’s brilliant, radically re-envisioned OKLAHOMA! remains a stunner on Broadway

Earlier this week, only the second and final musical revival of the 2018-2019 Broadway season (after a very fine revival of Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate! at Studio 54) opened when … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Stefano Massini’s sweeping THE LEHMAN TRILOGY triumphantly arrives in New York, and it’s masterful in every way

Last night at the Park Avenue Armory, I caught the highly anticipated North American premiere of Stefano Massini’s The Lehman Trilogy, which triumphantly arrives in New York after having been a sold out … Continue Reading →