THE HANGOVER REPORT – Alison Fraser slays Aaron Mark’s SQUEAMISH

Last night, Halloween, I caught up with Aaron Mark’s evocative and gory one-woman show Squeamish, courtesy of All for One Theater at the Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row. It turned out … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Julie Taymor’s uneven revival of M. BUTTERFLY by David Henry Hwang opens on Broadway

With last week’s opening of Julie Taymor’s revival of the 1988 Tony-winning play M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang at the Cort Theatre, New York will have three major adaptations of this … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Dave Malloy’s singular GHOST QUARTET haunts Next Door at NYTW

I recently caught the inaugural performance at New York Theatre Workshop’s intimate 65-seat black box Next Door at NYTW space, a remounting of Dave Malloy’s singular song cycle, Ghost Quartet. This … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Denise Gough reprises her stunning breakthrough performance in PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS at St. Ann’s Warehouse

Last night, the National Theatre and Headlong’s acclaimed production of People, Places & Things had its American premiere at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. I had seen Duncan MacMillan’s play … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Two timely, hard-hitting prison dramas open Off-Broadway: JESUS HOPPED THE ‘A’ TRAIN and OEDIPUS EL REY

This week, two intensely staged, hard-hitting prison dramas opened Off-Broadway in high-profile productions: Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train at the Signature Theatre and Luis Alfaro’s Oedipus El Rey at the … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – NSangou Njikam’s new hip-hop musical SYNCING INK at the Flea is exuberant and joyously-performed

Last night at the (new) Flea, I caught the exuberant and joyously-performed New York premiere of the rap/hip-hop musical Syncing Ink. The show, written by the talented NSangou Njikam (who also … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Belarus Free Theatre’s guttural BURNING DOORS is political activism via savvy theater-making

In our desensitized post-everything world, the ability to experience theater, or art in general, on a truly visceral level is a rare occurrence. It’s therefore quite a surprise when something … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The ninth installment of Diana Oh’s uncompromising {MY LINGERIE PLAY} at the Rattlestick is messy, invigorating

Last night in the West Village, I caught {my lingerie play} 2017: The Concert and Call to Arms!!!!!!!!!, a genre-blurring piece (is it a musical? a concert? an autobiographical solo … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – How are they holding up?: A review of Broadway’s long-running hit musicals (Part 3/3)

In conclusion, here’s Part 3 of my assessment of Broadway’s long-running musical hits …   SCHOOL OF ROCK Revisited June 5 Of the 12 long-running musicals in this review, Sir … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – How are they holding up?: A review of Broadway’s long-running hit musicals (Part 2/3)

Here’s Part 2 of my assessment of Broadway’s long-running musical hits …   HAMILTON Revisited September 5 I predict that Hamilton will eventually become this generation’s Phantom. That is, fast forward fifty … Continue Reading →