THE HANGOVER REPORT – Tectonic’s touching, sensory-driven UNCOMMON SENSE places the audience in the shoes of its autistic characters

Down at the Sheen Center, I recently had the opportunity to catch Tectonic Theatre Project’s Uncommon Sense, a touching, multi-thread play about autism. In structure, the Anushka Paris-Carter and Andy Paris’s … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Heather Christian’s ANIMAL WISDOM rousingly reflects on death, through song

Last night, I ventured out to Bushwick to catch a performance of Heather Christian’s rousing Animal Wisdom, a self-proclaimed “requiem mass”, or Catholic mass for the dead. But the show … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Ayad Akhtar’s ambitious, sprawling JUNK opens on Broadway

Last night, Ayad Akhtar’s eagerly anticipated Junk opened on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, courtesy of Lincoln Center Theater. With his new play, Mr. Akhtar, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – The current productions of THE B-SIDE and ILLYRIA intimately bridge past and present, in ways only theater can

History is in vogue again. The hit musical Hamilton has made it a sexy pursuit to critically engage with history by taking a hard look at past events and bringing … Continue Reading →

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 →