THE HANGOVER REPORT – Heather Raffo’s NOURA is an intelligent, absorbing contemporary riff on Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House”

This week, Heather Raffo’s intelligent and absorbing new play Noura opened Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons. The play was first seen as part of Women’s Voices Theater Festival, the excellent annual … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Jeremy O. Harris’s suffocating and disturbed SLAVE PLAY is a rabbit hole from which there is no easy way out

This past weekend, Jeremy O. Harris’s new play Slave Play opened Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop. The play tells the story of three interracial couples who try to work … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Patricia Ione Lloyd’s broadly-acted EVE’S SONG is a metaphorical ghost story, and it’s haunting and unsettling

This past weekend, I caught the penultimate performance of Patricia Ione Lloyd’s Eve’s Song at the Public Theater. The play is one of several this fall to explore the realities … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – More than a decade on, Martin Moran revisits his exquisitely-wrought, deeply conflicted THE TRICKY PART in the #MeToo era

This weekend, I caught Martin Moran’s re-visitation of his exquisitely wrought, deeply conflicted 2005 one-man theatrical memoir The Tricky Part at the TBG Mainstage Theatre. I had read a lot … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – BAM’s Next Wave Festival, Weeks 7-11: Memorable highlights include the dramatization of Joan Didion’s THE WHITE ALBUM and Mark-Anthony Turnage’s visceral opera GREEK

Weeks 7 through 11 of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival showcased to BAM-goers a wide variety of genres in its three distinct spaces (the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, BAM Harvey, and BAM … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Ivo van Hove’s breathtaking and prescient production of NETWORK roars open on Broadway, starring a sensational Bryan Cranston

Last night, Belgian auteur theater director Ivo van Hove’s bold, brash, and altogether stunning stage adaptation of Paddy Chayefsky’s 1976 film Network roared opened on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre. The … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The disarmingly straightforward and completely charming A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES warmly conjures the spirit of the holidays

This week, I was finally able to catch Irish Repertory Theatre’s production of A Child’s Christmas in Wales, adapted by Charlotte Moore from the writings of Dylan Thomas. The musical … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Tyne and Tim Daley headline Theresa Rebeck’s predictable DOWNSTAIRS

Even for the standards of the prolific Theresa Rebeck, this fall theater season has shaped up to be a busy few months for the ubiquitous writer (she writes for television and is a novelist, … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The entertaining THE CHER SHOW is self-effacing, and the better for it

This week, the Broadway season’s second jukebox musical opened at the Neil Simon Theatre, the anticipated The Cher Show (the first to open was the under-appreciated Go-Go’s musical Head Over Heels, which … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Tom Stoppard’s relatively brisk THE HARD PROBLEM poses large questions, with brilliant intellect and heart

This past weekend, I caught the New York premiere of Tom Stoppard’s The Hard Problem at the Mitzi Newhouse Theater, courtesy of Lincoln Center Theater. This latest from Stoppard – … Continue Reading →