THE HANGOVER REPORT – The singular Kathryn Hunter captivates as a re-gendered TIMON OF ATHENS

Earlier this week, I caught Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens courtesy of Theatre for a New Audience – in a co-production with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Washington, DC’s Shakespeare Theatre Company … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Four tough broads: Michelle Dooley Mahon’s THE SCOURGE & Richard Maxwell’s QUEENS ROW

Over the last week, I caught two productions that featured women toughing out exceedingly difficult situations. One involves the true story of a woman who all but dedicates her life … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The talent-filled EMOJILAND is lots of fun but as two-dimensional as its namesake

Over at the Duke on 42 Street, we have the new Off-Broadway musical Emojiland: The Musical by the writing duo of Keith Harrison and Laura Schein (together, they wrote the show’s score and … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The long-running London hit THE WOMAN IN BLACK gets an intimate staging at the McKittrick Hotel

Last night at the McKittrick Hotel, I finally attended a performance of Stephen Mallatratt’s adaptation of Susan Hill’s ghost story The Woman in Black. At 30-years-old, the play – which tells the … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The Met’s inadvertent concert presentation of Berlioz’s LA DAMNATION DE FAUST proves sonically glorious

This past weekend, I attended the opening performance of the Metropolitan Opera’s inadvertent concert presentation of Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust. I say inadvertent because the opera company had originally planned to … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – PROTOTYPE 2020 finds the new opera festival as adventurous and vital as ever

One of the highlights of the frigid winter months in New York is the opportunity to bask in Prototype, the vital annual festival celebrating new opera and music theater. This year’s edition … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Bess Wohl’s semi-successful comedy GRAND HORIZONS opens on Broadway, led by the great Jane Alexander

This week, Second Stage Theater’s production of Grand Horizons by Bess Wohl opened on the Great White Way at the Helen Hayes Theatre. The new comedy was developed in conjunction … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – James & Jerome’s THE CONVERSATIONALISTS is the storytelling duo’s most theatrical and elaborate creation to date

James Harrison Monaco and Jerome Ellis – together, simply known as James & Jerome – have emerged in recent years as one of the most idiosyncratic and compelling storytellers in … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Gustavo Dudamel triumphantly leads the NY PHILHARMONIC after an absence of more than a decade

This past week at the David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, Gustavo Dudamel returned to conduct the New York Philharmonic after an absence of more than a decade. As if to compensate … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Eboni Booth’s intensely naturalistic PARIS unsettlingly depicts the desperation of minimum wagers

Last night, Paris by Eboni Booth (who first came to my attention as an actress in Dance Nation and Fulfillment Center, both exciting new plays) opened Off-Broadway at the bunker-like, subterranean Atlantic Stage … Continue Reading →