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InterludesMusings on the State of the Arts Interludes Facebook Interludes Twitter HomeDanceMusicCabaretOperaOther MusicTheaterBroadwayOff-BroadwayOther MusingsAbout Me (Adrian Dimanlig)Contact THE HANGOVER REPORT – James Ijames’s smart, uproarious FAT HAM inverts the tragedy of Shakespeare’s iconic play to empower Black Queerness: Last night, James Ijames’s uproarious yet profoundly defiant Fat Ham opened at the Public Theater in a co-production with National Black Theatre. As many of you know, the play a … Continue Reading → THE HANGOVER REPORT – Trish Harnetiaux’s playfully abstract CALIFORNIA launches the 25th edition of Clubbed Thumb’s essential Summerworks series: This week at the cozy wild project in the East Village, I caught California by Trish Harnetiaux (the playwright’s theatrical podcast series The MS Phoenix Rising tickled me during lockdown). … Continue Reading → THE HANGOVER REPORT – Brett Dean’s faithful, visceral operatic adaptation of HAMLET sonically unleashes the existential depths of the Bard’s text: Last week, I was able to catch up with the New York premiere of composer Brett Dean and librettist Matthew Jocelyn’s visceral operatic adaptation of Hamlet at the Metropolitan Opera. … Continue Reading → THE HANGOVER REPORT – Mary Wiseman turns in a star-making performance in AT THE WEDDING, Bryna Turner’s slight but emotionally bruised new comedy: This past week, I attended a performance of Lincoln Center Theater’s Off-Broadway production of Bryna Turner’s new play At the Wedding. The comedy (which I thankfully caught before it concluded … Continue Reading → THE HANGOVER REPORT – Karen Hartman’s sturdy, cleverly-framed new drama THE LUCKY STAR affectingly excavates one family’s elusive history: This week at Theater A at 59E59 Theaters, I caught Karen Hartman’s The Lucky Star. The play dramatizes Richard Hollander’s bookEvery Day Lasts a Year: A Jewish Family’s Correspondence from … Continue Reading → THE HANGOVER REPORT – James Ijames’s smart, uproarious FAT HAM inverts the tragedy of Shakespeare’s iconic play to empower Black Queerness Bydrediman May 27, 2022 No Comments Last night, James Ijames’s uproarious yet profoundly defiant Fat Ham opened at the Public Theater in a co-production with National Black Theatre. As many of you know, the play a … Continue Reading → THE HANGOVER REPORT – Trish Harnetiaux’s playfully abstract CALIFORNIA launches the 25th edition of Clubbed Thumb’s essential Summerworks series Bydrediman May 26, 2022 No Comments This week at the cozy wild project in the East Village, I caught California by Trish Harnetiaux (the playwright’s theatrical podcast series The MS Phoenix Rising tickled me during lockdown). … Continue Reading → THE HANGOVER REPORT – Brett Dean’s faithful, visceral operatic adaptation of HAMLET sonically unleashes the existential depths of the Bard’s text Bydrediman May 25, 2022 No Comments Last week, I was able to catch up with the New York premiere of composer Brett Dean and librettist Matthew Jocelyn’s visceral operatic adaptation of Hamlet at the Metropolitan Opera. … Continue Reading → THE HANGOVER REPORT – Mary Wiseman turns in a star-making performance in AT THE WEDDING, Bryna Turner’s slight but emotionally bruised new comedy Bydrediman May 24, 2022 No Comments This past week, I attended a performance of Lincoln Center Theater’s Off-Broadway production of Bryna Turner’s new play At the Wedding. The comedy (which I thankfully caught before it concluded … Continue Reading → THE HANGOVER REPORT – Karen Hartman’s sturdy, cleverly-framed new drama THE LUCKY STAR affectingly excavates one family’s elusive history Bydrediman May 23, 2022 No Comments This week at Theater A at 59E59 Theaters, I caught Karen Hartman’s The Lucky Star. The play dramatizes Richard Hollander’s bookEvery Day Lasts a Year: A Jewish Family’s Correspondence from … Continue Reading → THE HANGOVER REPORT – Ebru Nihan Celkan’s fractured two-hander WILL YOU COME WITH ME? gets lost in translation Bydrediman May 18, 2022 No Comments Earlier this week, I trekked to Gowanus in Brooklyn to catch the opening night performance of Turkish playwright Ebru Nihan Celkan’s Will You Come with Me? at MITU580. The new … Continue Reading → THE HANGOVER REPORT – The breezy new musical ROMEO & BERNADETTE is an amusingly incongruous love letter to Shakespeare and Brooklyn Bydrediman May 17, 2022 No Comments Last night, Mark Saltzman’s Romeo & Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona & Brooklyn opened Off-Broadway at Theater 555. The current run marks the return to New York of the … Continue Reading → VIEWPOINTS – To leave or not to leave: Notions of home and identity explored in Mona Monsour’s THE VAGRANT TRILOGY Sanaz Toossi’s WISH YOU WERE HERE Bydrediman May 16, 2022 No Comments This past weekend, I attended two thought-provoking new plays – Mona Monsour’s The Vagrant Trilogy and Sanaz Toossi’s Wish You Were Here – that explored notions of home and identity … Continue Reading → THE HANGOVER REPORT – The astonishing Dylan & McPherson musical GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY returns to Broadway for a limited time Bydrediman May 15, 2022 No Comments Last week, I had a chance to return to Bob Dylan and Conor McPherson’s astonishing musical Girl from the North Country, which returns to the Belasco Theatre for a limited … Continue Reading → THE HANGOVER REPORT – The ageless Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse return to Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE Bydrediman May 15, 2022 No Comments This past week at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, I caught Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway revival of Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive starring the ageless and ever-distinctive Mary-Louise … Continue Reading → Previous My TweetsTweets by @AEDimanligRecent PostsTHE HANGOVER REPORT – James Ijames’s smart, uproarious FAT HAM inverts the tragedy of Shakespeare’s iconic play to empower Black QueernessTHE HANGOVER REPORT – Trish Harnetiaux’s playfully abstract CALIFORNIA launches the 25th edition of Clubbed Thumb’s essential Summerworks seriesTHE HANGOVER REPORT – Brett Dean’s faithful, visceral operatic adaptation of HAMLET sonically unleashes the existential depths of the Bard’s textTHE HANGOVER REPORT – Mary Wiseman turns in a star-making performance in AT THE WEDDING, Bryna Turner’s slight but emotionally bruised new comedyTHE HANGOVER REPORT – Karen Hartman’s sturdy, cleverly-framed new drama THE LUCKY STAR affectingly excavates one family’s elusive historyCategoriesBroadwayCabaretDanceMusicOff-BroadwayOperaOther MusicOther MusingsTheaterUncategorized Copyright © 2022 Interludes. 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