THE HANGOVER REPORT – Angela Hanks’ quirky parody WILDER GONE is one of the funniest shows in New York

Last night at the Wild Project, I caught the second offering of this year’s Summerworks – the annual festival of new plays curated by the folks at Clubbed Thumb – … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Nilo Cruz’s melodramatic EXQUISITA AGONÍA is lost in translation

This past weekend, I caught a performance of Exquisita Agonía, the latest by Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Nilo Cruz (he won the coveted prize with Anna in the Tropics), which runs in repertory at … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The hilarious, deceptively slight RANDY WRITES A NOVEL digs deeper than you’d think

Last night, I caught the final performance of the deceptively slight one-man comedy Randy Writes a Novel, an hilarious import from Australia (the show had made a number of international stops en … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Lauren Yee’s THE GREAT LEAP is entertaining but overly ambitious

This weekend, I caught Lauren Yee’s enjoyable if overly ambitious and eager new play The Great Leap courtesy of Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company at Atlantic Stage 2. I was a fan of … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Stephen Adly Guirgis’s jazzy, character-driven OUR LADY OF 121ST STREET is sensationally revived

Last night, I caught up with Signature Theatre Company’s sensational revival of Our Lady of 121st Street by Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Stephen Adly Guirgis. I had last seen the character-driven play – which depicts a … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – ERC’s TCHAIKOVSKY: NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART lets the tortured composer’s work do the talking, movingly

I recently took in a performance of Ensemble for the Romantic Century’s Tchaikovsky: None but the Lonely Heart, the company’s final production of its 2017-2018 season, at the Pershing Square Signature … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Anthony Giardina’s DAN CODY’S YACHT is a Shavian treatise, for better or worse

One of the best plays to open in New York in recent seasons was Anthony Giardina’s politically-minded The City of Conversation (starring the late, great, and much-missed Jan Maxwell) staged by … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – COPPÉLIA and HARLEQUINADE: A pair of comic story ballets play Lincoln Center, just in time to usher in the warmer months

Over the past few weeks, New York dance fans have been treated to a pair of high profile stagings of comic story ballets at Lincoln Center – just in time … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Rennie Harris’s energized FUNKEDIFIED is tremendous fun, nothing more, nothing less

This past weekend at The New Victory Theater, I was able to take in a performance of Funkedified, an adrenaline-fueled dance collage performed by Rennie Harris Puremovement and Hood Lockers … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Charles Wuorinen’s highly anticipated, emotionally turbulent operatic adaptation of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN doesn’t fully satisfy

Last night, I attended the final performance of New York City Opera’s brief run of Brokeback Mountain, Charles Wuorinen’s operatic adaptation of the Annie Proulx short story (made famous by … Continue Reading →