VIEWPOINTS – Dance roundup: Annie-B Parson’s confounding THE MOOD ROOM and exciting performances of SHELTER and BUSKER by Alvin Ailey

I recently had a chance to catch up with and engage in a couple of dance performances. Here are my thoughts on them. THE MOOD ROOMBig Dance Theater at Brooklyn … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – KIKI & HERB and BRIDGET EVERETT: Two of cabaret’s most outrageous and popular acts return

This week, Brooklyn Academy of Music and Joe’s Pub, respectively, play host to Kiki & Herb (a.k.a. Justin Vivian Bond and Kenny Mellman) and Bridget Everett, two of cabaret’s most … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Reassessed and rejuvenated: Checking up on Broadway’s post-lockdown THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA & THE LION KING

Over the past few weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to check up on Broadway’s two longest running shows – The Phantom of the Opera at the Majestic Theatre (where the … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – CHEEK TO CHEEK & MORNINGS AT SEVEN: Hopelessly old-fashioned shows that charm as museum pieces

This past weekend, I attended a pair of hopelessly old-fashioned but charming Off-Broadway shows that conjure (and yearn?) for a world that’s long gone. Although some may disagree, I’d like … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Lynn Nottage’s vibrant, vividly staged CLYDE’S shows a raucous new side of the lauded playwright

Last week, Lynn Nottage’s Clyde’s opened on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre, courtesy of Second Stage Theater. Having twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Ruined and Sweat, Ms. Nottage … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – SEUSSICAL & HEATHERS: Cult favorite musicals find their voice in their condensed cabaret incarnations

Last week at two of New York’s premiere cabaret venues catering to musical theater buffs, I was struck by the level of enthusiasm that was met by a pair of … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The tone deaf DIANA, THE MUSICAL has the potential to amass a cult following

True to its subject matter, the new musical Diana, the Musical has garnered considerable intrigue. Following a much buzzed about out of town tryout at La Jolla Playhouse, the musical … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Mark Shanahan’s A SHERLOCK CAROL cleverly intersects two familiar literary universes

Earlier this week, Mark Shanahan’s A Sherlock Carol opened Off-Broadway at New World Stages. There’s usually no lack in options for live holiday entertainment this time of year for New … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Mansa Ra’s neatly hopeful IN THE SOUTHERN BREEZE explores the history of violence against Black men

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in the West Village was one of the first Off-Broadway theater companies to return to in-person performance when it unveiled its terrific production of Arturo Luís Soria’s … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Soho Rep’s insidious, convention-busting production of WHILE YOU WERE PARTYING unnerves and unsettles

Yet another Off-Broadway theater to return to in-person performance is the small but mighty Soho Repertory Theater, which over the years has amassed a body of work that is surely … Continue Reading →