THE HANGOVER REPORT – In A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD, Samuel D. Hunter makes a case for men’s capacity for feeling and sensitivity

This week, Signature Theatre Company’s production of A Case for the Existence of God by Samuel D. Hunter opened Off-Broadway at the Pershing Square Signature Center. Set in a small, … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The hilarity doesn’t cease in Selina Fillinger’s shallow farce POTUS: OR, BEHIND EVERY GREAT DUMBASS ARE SEVEN WOMEN TRYING TO KEEP HIM ALIVE

Also this past weekend, I caught Selina Fillinger’s new Broadway comedy POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, a relatively last minute entry … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Lileana Blain-Cruz’s timely, outsized revival of Thornton Wilder’s THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH leans in on the work’s operatic absurdity

This past weekend at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, I attended a performance of Lincoln Center Theater’s Broadway revival of The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder (who is best … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Superstars Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga headline Sam Gold’s confounding, curiously blasé production of MACBETH

This week at the Longacre Theatre, the highly anticipated revival of Macbeth arrived on the Great White Way, marking the opening of the final entry of the rollercoaster 2021-2022 Broadway … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The amiable Beanie Feldstein leads a streamlined FUNNY GIRL but can’t erase the indelible memories of La Streisand

Last night, I attended the hotly anticipated Broadway revival of Funny Girl at the August Wilson Theatre. Talks of a revival have been simmering for about a decade now with a … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Lesley Nichol’s gently diverting musical autobiography HOW THE HELL DID I GET HERE? endearingly charts the “Downton Abbey” star’s unlikely career

This week, Lesley Nichol’s How the Hell Did I Get Here? opened Off-Broadway at the McKittrick Hotel (best known as the home of the long-running immersive theater experience Sleep No … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman’s moving and sturdily constructed musical HARMONY makes its long-awaited New York debut

Last night at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, I attended the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene’s Off-Broadway production of Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman’s “new” musical Harmony. The musical has been … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Michael R. Jackson’s deeply personal Pulitzer Prize-winning A STRANGE LOOP makes the jump to Broadway, triumphantly

Last night, Michael R. Jackson’s singular “self-referential” musical A Strange Loop opened on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre. The production comes by way of Off-Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons (in a co-production … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – JC Lee’s observant comedy TO MY GIRLS investigates white male privilege in gay culture, thereby comprehensively critiquing a generation of gays

This past weekend at Off-Broadway’s Tony Kiser Theater, I attended one of the final performances of Second Stage Theater’s production of To My Girls by JC Lee (the production’s last … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The new two-hander musical ISLANDER is a beguiling little creation that unobtrusively addresses environmental issues

Last night, I attended a performance of Islander at Playhouse 46, a brand new off-Broadway performance venue in the heart of the Theater District that has given a new lease … Continue Reading →