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 →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The superb 50th anniversary revival of THE BOYS IN THE BAND proves that the seminal play remains relevant

Last night, the first Broadway show of the 2018-2019 season opened at the Booth Theatre. Regardless of which season it falls in, Joe Mantello’s superb 50th anniversary revival of Mart Crowley’s … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Irish Rep’s production of WOMAN AND SCARECROW is a pitch black comedy from a playwright with an unapologetically gothic sensibility

I recently had a chance to watch a performance of Woman and Scarecrow by Marina Carr – a playwright I hadn’t been familiar with – at Off-Broadway’s Irish Repertory Theatre. … Continue Reading →