THE HANGOVER REPORT – Tiler Peck curates The Joyce Theater’s BALLET FESTIVAL with a focus squarely on Jerome Robbins (and City Ballet)

This past week, I had the great opportunity to catch one of the programs of the 2025 iteration of The Joyce Theater’s annual Ballet Festival. Curated by New York City … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Bringing beguiling humanity to icons of popular culture: GENE & GILDA and THE ANIMALS SPEAK

Currently Off-Broadway, you’ll find a pair of new plays that endeavor to bring beguiling humanity to icons of popular culture. I’m happy to report that they’ve largely succeed. As always, … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – This summer, a flamboyant escape artist and a down-to-earth illusionist endeavor to wow in SEVEN DEADLY SINS and AMAZE

This sultry summer, a pair of high profile magic shows are gracing the boards of two of Off-Broadway’s largest venues. If the sweltering heat and stifling humidity are getting to … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA OF LINCOLN CENTER wistfully excavates the notion of displacement

Now that Summer for the City has begun striking its elaborate set up across Lincoln Center’s campus, I thought it would be a fitting time to look back at at … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – ROLLING THUNDER: Chronicling the Vietnam War through the urgent rock songs of the time

This summer over at Off-Broadway’s New World Stages, you’ll find the new jukebox musical Rolling Thunder: A Rock Journey. Using a catalog of twenty classic rock songs from the 60s … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – At the fabulously rebooted Laurie Beechman Theater, RACHEL POTTER returns to her musical theater roots

Last night at the fabulously rebooted Laurie Beechman Theater, I had the privilege of catching Rachel Potter in her first New York solo show in approximately a decade. Having just … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Over at Sag Harbor, Bay Street Theater mounts a solid summer revival of Frank Wildhorn’s BONNIE & CLYDE

This past weekend, I found myself in the Hamptons and had the opportunity to attend Bay Street Theater’s solid revival of Bonnie and Clyde in Sag Harbor. If you haven’t … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Bubba Weiler’s WELL, I’LL LET YOU GO is an exquisitely nuanced portrait of grief and doubt, by way of “Our Town”

One of the finest plays to emerge from these summer months is Bubba Weiler’s new work Well, I’ll Let You Go, which is currently playing an extended run at The … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Cynthia Erivo is transcendent in Hollywood Bowl’s amped up presentation of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

Last weekend in Los Angeles, I had the great opportunity of attending the starry production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s iconic rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, which played … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The new Off-Broadway parody GINGER TWINSIES campily, hilariously sends up “The Parent Trap”

This week at the Orpheum Theatre in the East Village, I was able to catch up with Ginger Twinsies, Kevin Zak’s Off-Broadway spoof of the 1998 cinematic reboot of The … Continue Reading →