THE HANGOVER REPORT – Jack Thorne’s genuinely heartfelt A CHRISTMAS CAROL on Broadway is necessary holiday entertainment

Over the weekend, I had the chance to pay a visit to Jack Thorne’s new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, which opened last week at the Lyceum Theatre. The … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Proof that classical music can be among the coolest things in town: Philip Glass’s AKHNATEN & the Currentzis-led Verdi REQUIEM

Last week, I attended two highly anticipated classical music events that were among the hottest tickets in town, proving that art form can be — contrary to the general thought … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – City Center’s gala production of EVITA is musically ravishing, led by Solea Pfeiffer’s star-making performance

This afternoon, I caught one of the final performances of New York City Center’s gala production of Evita, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Tony-winning 1979 musical about Eva Peron, Argentina’s … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Strange coincidence: The stage adaptations of Édouard Louis’s THE END OF EDDY & HISTORY OF VIOLENCE take up residence in Brooklyn

Matthew Lopez’s The Inheritance isn’t the only play in town theatricalizing the gay experience. In a strange coincidence and an unprecedented collaboration between two of Brooklyn’s top performing arts institutions – the Brooklyn Academy … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – THE INHERITANCE, Matthew Lopez’s profoundly moving two-part saga depicting post-AIDS crisis gay life, arrives on Broadway

This week, The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez opened on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The play is the latest in this season’s healthy string of new plays to open on the … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – No rest for the weary: The provocative, unabashedly personal BLACK EXHIBITION finds playwright (and actor) Jeremy O. Harris working overtime

As they say, there’s no rest for the weary, as exemplified by playwright Jeremy O. Harris’s uniquely busy fall. One of the unlikeliest sensations of the Broadway season thus far … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: THE NEXT GENERATION is inspired parody, and one of the most consistently hilarious entries in the long-lived series

This past weekend at the Triad Theatre, I caught the latest in a long line of entries in Gerard Alessandrini’s revered and invaluable Forbidden Broadway series, this one entitled “The Next Generation”. … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Christine Goerke unveils a very human Isolde via the NSO’s dramatically and musically alert performance of Wagner’s intoxicating score

Yesterday at David Geffen Hall, Gianandrea Noseda led the National Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Act II of Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. The raison d’être for the concert, an offering at this … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – THE GREAT TAMER, Dimitris Papaioannou’s surreal, slow-burning visual symphony, mesmerizes at BAM

Last night at the Howard Gilman Opera House, the highly regarded Greek auteur Dimitris Papaioannou made his BAM debut with The Great Tamer, another smashing offering at this year’s Next Wave Festival. … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – SLAVA’S SNOWSHOW returns to New York, essentially the same but still radiating its quirky, much-loved charms

Slava’s Snowshow has returned to Broadway after more than a decade at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, where it opened this week. The show was created by Slava Polunin – who amazingly continues … Continue Reading →