THE HANGOVER REPORT – Jaap van Zweden leads his NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC in an eclectic, disorienting program featuring Renée Fleming

Last night, I attended a performance by the New York Philharmonic at David Geffen Hall. The concert was conducted by the orchestra’s music director, maestro Jaap van Zweden, who gamely … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Drew Droege depicts multitudes (again) in the slight but hilariously diverting HAPPY BIRTHDAY DOUG

Last night, I attended a late night performance of Drew Droege’s Happy Birthday Doug at the SoHo Playhouse. The venue is also where I previously caught Mr. Droege in his 2017 … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Pearl Cleage’s vibrant BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY receives a rock-solid production via Keen Company

Last night, Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky opened at Theatre Row, courtesy of Keen Company. The production marks the play’s long-awaited New York debut, after having premiered at … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – At The Joyce, Cie Hervé KOUBI dazzles with its uncommon combination of unabashed athleticism and sophisticated artistry

Last night at The Joyce Theater, Cie Hervé KOUBI’s evening-length Les nuits barbares ou les premiers matins du monde (“The Barbarian Nights, or the First Dawns of the World”) initiated its weeklong … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – ANATOMY OF A SUICIDE, Alice Birch’s daring and unsparing experiment, pays off in spades

Last night, Atlantic Theater Company’s production of Anatomy of a Suicide by Alice Birch opened Off-Broadway at the Linda Gross Theater. Alice Birch is one of the more exciting and adventurous playwrights currently … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Two theatrically successful if erratic stage adaptations of DRACULA & FRANKENSTEIN haunt CSC

Currently haunting Classic Stage Company are new stage adaptations of two iconic horror novels, Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Overall, they prove to be theatrically successful, if a tad on the erratic side. … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Jean-Guihen Queyras, and Rosas ravish in the distilled MITTEN WIR IM LEBEN SIND

To coincide with this week’s opening of the controversial Broadway revival of West Side Story, the iconic Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker this weekend at NYU Skirball presented, for … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Donnetta Lavinia Grays’ performance in her own WHERE WE STAND casts a spell despite an occasionally vague and didactic script

This week, the new play Where We Stand opened Off-Broadway, courtesy of WP Theater (in a co-production with Baltimore Center Stage). The solo show – written and performed by Donnetta … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Zora Howard’s boisterous new play STEW stealthily inverts the kitchen sink drama for its own end

I recently had the opportunity to attend a performance of Stew, a new play by Zora Howard receiving its world premiere staging via Page 73 (a company that has nurtured and … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Yaël Farber’s production of HAMLET, starring Ruth Negga, is a wrenching slow-burn

Last night at St. Ann’s Warehouse, I caught Yaël Farber’s much-anticipated staging of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Over the last decade or so, Ms. Farber has worked around the globe, making a name for … Continue Reading →