THE HANGOVER REPORT – City Ballet star Sara Mearns shines in the delightful Encores! revival of Rodgers and Hart’s I MARRIED AN ANGEL

Sunday evening at New York City Center, I caught the final performance of the delightful Encores! revival of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s rarely performed I Married an Angel. Besides getting … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Ira Fuchs’ sturdy new play VILNA is workmanlike and ultimately quite affecting

Yesterday, I attended a matinee performance of Ira Fuchs’ new play Vilna Off-Broadway at the Theatre at St. Clement’s. Set in the Polish city of Vilna, the play depicts the turbulent two-and-a-half … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Little Lord’s SKINNAMARINK channels early childhood, menacingly and playfully

Before ending its brief run this weekend, I was able to catch Little Lord’s Skinnamarink, one of the many offerings of New York Theatre Workshop’s Next Door series. The show uses “McGuffey’s Eclectic Readers” … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The Wooster Group’s THE B-SIDE still conjures ghosts of the past

Last weekend, I had the opportunity to catch the Wooster Group’s The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons” at St. Ann’s Warehouse. The staging is a remounting of a production … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – WHITE NOISE: Suzan-Lori Parks as ambitious and provocative, as ever

Last night, Suzan-Lori Parks’ highly anticipated new play White Noise opened Off-Broadway at the Public Theater’s Anspacher Theater. At its heart, the play tells the story of Leo (played by Daveed Diggs, a … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Influences collide in Tori Sampson’s exuberant IF PRETTY HURTS UGLY MUST BE A MUTHAFUCKA

I recently had a chance to catch up with Tori Sampson’s lively new play If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muthafucka at Playwrights Horizons. Set in the West African village … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Chisa Hutchinson’s spare, tender SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY is lifted by Jay Mazyck’s disarming performance

This weekend at the newly-renovated Theatre Row, I caught the New York premiere of Chisa Hutchinson’s Surely Goodness and Mercy, courtesy of Off-Broadway’s Keen Company. Set in Newark, NJ, the play tells the … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Michael McKeever’s AFTER efficiently, mechanically examines marriage, bullying, and gun culture

Last night, Michael McKeever’s new play After opened Off-Broadway at 59E59 Theaters, in a co-production with Penguin Repertory Theatre. On the surface, the work calls to mind Yasmina Reza’s Tony-winning play … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Plexus Polaire’s ASHES beguiles via haunting, expertly rendered puppetry

I’ve long had a fascination for puppetry. There’s something intensely theatrical about taking inanimate objects and injecting them with the spirit and spontaneity of life itself. This past January as part … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Hubbard Street Dance Chicago delves into Naharin and Pite’s striking body of work

This weekend, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is completing a highly successful, well-sold two week residency at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea. The renowned dance troupe performed two discrete programs, delving … Continue Reading →