THE HANGOVER REPORT – Led by the bubbly Jasmine Amy Rogers, the 21st century musical version of BOOP! is highly enjoyable escapist fun

Then over at the Broadhurst Theatre, you’ll find Boop! The Musical, a musical inspired by the iconic animated character Betty Boop. During the 1930s in the midst of the Great … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Adrienne Warren is breathtaking in the strangely lopsided Broadway revival of THE LAST FIVE YEARS

Earlier this week at the Hudson Theatre, I attended the Broadway arrival of Jason Robert Brown’s pseudo-autobiographical The Last Five Years. Written in 2001, the intimate two-hander musical — which … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Barrie Kosky’s heightened staging of THE THREEPENNY OPERA brings danger and seduction to the classic

This past weekend, I had the great opportunity to catch the storied Berliner Ensemble’s acclaimed revival of The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. Co-presented by the Brooklyn … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The daft new musical OPERATION MINCEMEAT arrives on Broadway, unapologetically silly (and British)

Last night, I was able to take in the Broadway transfer of the Olivier Award-winning musical Operation Mincemeat at the John Golden Theatre. Across the pond in London, the relentlessly … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Doing what Encores! does best: Dusting off all-but-forgotten musical relics like Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner’s LOVE LIFE

This past weekend, I was also able to catch the final performance of the limited run of the Encores! revival of Love Life at New York City Center. Originally set … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Mental wellness and parenting: Joshua Harmon’s WE HAD A WORLD and Max Mondi’s MAYBE TOMORROW

In recent days, I had the chance to take in a pair of dramatic works that deal with mental wellness as it relates to parenting, particularly motherhood. As always, read … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – A multimedia triumph: Sarah Snook lives up to the hype in the stage adaptation of THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

Last night, the highly anticipated theatrical adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s notorious novel The Picture of Dorian Gray opened on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre headlined by Sarah Snook (who is perhaps … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – On Broadway, ecstatic and revolutionary music-making lies at the heart of BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB

Last night at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, I was able to catch up with the new Broadway musical Buena Vista Social Club, which has arrived on the Great White Way … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Further re-evaluating the Alice Childress canon: CSC’s powerfully-acted revival of WINE IN THE WILDERNESS

Last night, Classic Stage Company’s beautifully-acted revival of Alice Childress’s Wine in the Wilderness opened Off-Broadway, continuing the much-needed re-evaluation of the pioneering playwright’s long career and extensive body of … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – MALAISE DANS LA CIVILISATION loosely conjures human nature via whimsical, physical meta-theatrical clowning

This past weekend at the Perelman Performing Arts Center, I had the opportunity to catch one of the final performances of Alix Dufrense and Étienne Lepage’s Malaise Dans La Civilisation. … Continue Reading →