VIEWPOINTS – The Chicago report: New works at STEPPENWOLF, GOODMAN, CHICAGO SHAKES, and COURT enliven the spring theater season

This past week, I found myself in the Windy City, where I was able to bask myself in Chicago’s storied theater scene. This spring season, diverse new works were the … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Debbie Allen helms an unfussy and sturdily-acted Broadway revival of August Wilson’s JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE

My 2025/2026 Broadway theatergoing season officially came to a close when I recently attended the highly anticipated revival of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at the Ethel Barrymore … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Robert Wilson’s avant-garde production of MOBY DICK cracks open the Melville classic, dropping viewers into another dimension

When the legendary Robert Wilson passed away last year, the art world lost one of the indisputable giants of avant-garde theater. An uncompromising auteur who spanned and was equally at … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – David Lindsay-Abaire’s THE BALUSTERS is as illuminating in its truth-saying as it is hilarious in its shade-throwing

Earlier this week, I had the great opportunity to catch up with David Lindsay-Abaire’s The Balusters, the final new play to open during the 2025-2026 season. Essentially, Lindsay-Abaire’s latest is … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – THE LOST BOYS and BEACHES: The requisite film-to-stage adaptations arrive on Broadway, and they’re better than you’d think

The last week or so saw the arrival of two film-to-stage adaptations to this relatively timid Broadway season. Despite some wide-ranging word of mouth, they’re actually better than you’d think. … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – David Auburn’s PROOF returns to Broadway in a sensitively-acted production starring a beguiling Ayo Edebiri

Last week, I had the great opportunity to catch up with Thomas Kail’s sensitively-acted revival of David Auburn’s Proof starring Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle in their Broadway debuts, alongside … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – On Broadway, THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW is giddily revived in a thoroughly downtown manner

Last night, Roundabout Theatre Company’s highly anticipated production of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show opened on Broadway at what has to be the ideal venue for the cult musical, … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Bringing parodic joy to Broadway: Transporting SCHMIGADOON! to the Nederlander, TITANÍQUE docks at the St. James

This spring on Broadway — in what seems to be reactionary to the fraught times we live in — campy, parodic joy has become the mode du jour, as evidenced … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Kelli O’Hara and Rose Byrne strike comic gold in Roundabout’s bubbly revival of Noël Coward’s FALLEN ANGELS

Last night at Broadway’s newly refreshed Todd Haimes Theatre, Roundabout Theatre Company unveiled a rare revival of Noël Coward‘s early-career play Fallen Angels. The production, which emphatically strikes comic gold, … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Burning down the house: Wallace Shawn harshly lifts the veil in THE FEVER, James Scruggs uncomfortably interrogates in OFF THE RECORD

This past week, I encountered a pair of caustic Off-Broadway productions that strove to reveal the vast inequities on which our society is built on, namely as it relates our … Continue Reading →