Cathy Hammer
@iamcathyhammer.bsky.social
Directors Guild member, theater columnist, opinionated lover of the arts.
How will you greet Meet the Cartozians? My review is live on the Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/11/19/m... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Meet the Cartozians
What establishes our identity? Skin color? Language? Scientific evidence? In a country comprised primarily of immigrants, how do we balance our cultural heritage with our re…
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November 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
How will you greet Meet the Cartozians? My review is live on the Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/11/19/m... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Are you destined to see Oedipus on Broadway? My review is live on The Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/11/14/r... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Robert Icke’s Oedipus
Restrict your liquids and buckle up for the ride. Robert Icke’s multiple Olivier Award Winning Oedipus has landed on Broadway. The writer/director phenom transforms the 2500 year old Greek myth t…
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November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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How delicious is Malcolm X & Redd Foxx Washing Dishes at Jimmy's Chicken Shack in Harlem? My review is live at theunforgettableline.com/2025/10/25/m...
Malcolm X & Redd Foxx Washing Dishes at Jimmy’s Chicken Shack in Harlem
In June of 1943, Malcolm Little and John Elroy Sanford crossed paths as dishwashers in the same Harlem fried chicken joint. At ages 19 and 20 respectively, they were still finding their footing as…
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October 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
How delicious is Malcolm X & Redd Foxx Washing Dishes at Jimmy's Chicken Shack in Harlem? My review is live at theunforgettableline.com/2025/10/25/m...
Is Perfect Crime legit? My review of this record breaker is live on The Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/10/20/p... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Perfect Crime
In a secluded stately home in the Connecticut woods, a married team of well-educated psychiatrists uses psychodrama to help their troubled patients work through trauma. One night, their cook …
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October 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Is Perfect Crime legit? My review of this record breaker is live on The Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/10/20/p... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Does Triplicity provide a lived in experience? My review is live on the Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/10/16/t... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Triplicity
Talking Band has been generating their unique brand of performance art for more than 50 years. Last year, they received a Lifetime Achievement Obie Award for their whimsical thought provoking…
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October 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Does Triplicity provide a lived in experience? My review is live on the Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/10/16/t... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Will you find flaw with The Glitch? My review is live on The Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/10/09/t...
The Glitch
In a world in which AI has seemingly infiltrated every aspect of life, it is not hard to imagine a lab like the one featured in Kipp Koenig’s The Glitch. “Future Child” allows want-to-be parents t…
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October 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Will you find flaw with The Glitch? My review is live on The Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/10/09/t...
Does This is Government get my vote? My review is live on The Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/09/17/t... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
This is Government
There is a mighty fine line between “timely” and “too close to home.” No one at 59E59 could have predicted that Trump ally and conservative activist Charlie Kirk would be shot and killed a few day…
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September 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Does This is Government get my vote? My review is live on The Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/09/17/t... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
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The Lights Are Bright Off Broadway
The New York theater scene is most often associated with Broadway, but there is a diverse audience that actually prefers to head Off-Broadway. (I count myself among them.) The descripto…
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September 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Is the cast and crew of Sulfur Bottom at the top of their game? My review is live on The Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/08/31/s... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Sulfur Bottom
Recently I took a tour of the history of New York City’s electrical system. Most of the infrastructure had been placed in marginalized neighborhoods. That this is not new news made it n…
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August 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Is the cast and crew of Sulfur Bottom at the top of their game? My review is live on The Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/08/31/s... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Will Road Kills leave you flattened? My review is live on The Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/08/19/r... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Road Kills
In art as in life, there is captivating drama to be mined when mismatched strangers are thrown together by circumstance. So it is in Sophie McIntosh’s Road Kills currently in an Off-Off-Broadway r…
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August 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Will Road Kills leave you flattened? My review is live on The Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/08/19/r... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
How big are the ideas presented in the 2025 Little Shakespeare Festival? My review is live on the Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/08/05/5... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
5th Annual Little Shakespeare Festival
Looking for an escape from the heat? the smoke? the world? I can recommend a bite-sized treat: the 5th Annual Little Shakespeare Festival. Each year playwrights take stories and themes …
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August 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
How big are the ideas presented in the 2025 Little Shakespeare Festival? My review is live on the Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/08/05/5... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Is Polishing Shakespeare destined to be a classic? My review is live on The Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/07/30/p... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Polishing Shakespeare
When you hear the premise of Polishing Shakespeare — Dot-com billionaire, Grant, is bestowing generous grants to a team of eager writers prepared to translate the entire works of The Bard into *Eng…
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July 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Is Polishing Shakespeare destined to be a classic? My review is live on The Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/07/30/p... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Is it blissful to watch Joy: The New True Musical? My review is live on The Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/07/20/j... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Joy: A new True Musical
Tired of not being able to answer the simple query, “how are you?” without sighing? Ken Davenport and AnnMarie Milazzo may have an answer. Their creation Joy: A New True Musical is a type of …
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July 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Is it blissful to watch Joy: The New True Musical? My review is live on The Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/07/20/j... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Should you make yourself available for OPEN? My review is live at theunforgettableline.com/2025/07/13/o...
OPEN
After a lengthy pause, Crystal Skillman’s award-winning play, OPEN, has been given a three-week Off-Broadway run at WP Theater. Celebrating its 47th Season, WP Theater is the oldest and largest t…
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July 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Should you make yourself available for OPEN? My review is live at theunforgettableline.com/2025/07/13/o...
Is Trophy Boys a winner? My review is live on the Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/06/25/t... @theatrecritics.bsky.social @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Trophy Boys
It all comes down to gray areas according to Jared, the second debater on the undefeated team at the center of Emmanuelle Mattana’s Trophy Boys. The same could be said of the entire play, now…
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June 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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How dark does Lunar Eclipse get? My review is live on The Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/06/04/l... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Lunar Eclipse
When the earth, moon, and sun are in alignment, the moon moves into earth’s shadow blocking light from reaching the moon’s surface. This lunar eclipse is the featured event of Donald Margulie…
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June 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
How dark does Lunar Eclipse get? My review is live on The Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/06/04/l... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Will you say "YES" to The United States vs Ulysses? My review is live on The Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/05/28/t... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
The United States vs Ulysses
In 1933, the landmark trial of “United States v. One Book Called Ulysses” cleared the way for the publication of many significant works of literature that include sexual content and adult language.…
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May 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Will you say "YES" to The United States vs Ulysses? My review is live on The Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/05/28/t... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Will you skate through EP Bowl? My review is live on the Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/05/26/b... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Bowl EP
I am not young, black, gay, or well acquainted with club drugs. What I am is a fierce advocate for theater as an art and communication form. Being in a performance space filled with 20-somethings w…
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May 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Will you skate through EP Bowl? My review is live on the Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/05/26/b... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Does Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole shine? My review is live on the Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/05/20/l... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole
In November of 1956, singer/pianist Nat “King” Cole became the first Black man to host a variety show on network television. Though he eventually had multiple Billboard hits including Mona Lisa, L…
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May 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Does Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole shine? My review is live on the Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/05/20/l... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Will you tip your (striped) hat to EPIC's Seussical the Musical? My review is live on the Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/05/11/e... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
EPIC’s Seussical the Musical
Seussical the Musical was not exactly a hit with the critics when it ran on Broadway about 25 years ago. Nonetheless, the familiarity of the characters and its themes, including the consequen…
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May 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Will you tip your (striped) hat to EPIC's Seussical the Musical? My review is live on the Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/05/11/e... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Does Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp. fall short? My review is live on the Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/04/16/g... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp.
The announcement of any performance of British playwright Caryl Churchill is cause for excitement. She has long been a powerful and intriguing voice for gender equality, environmental protect…
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April 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Does Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp. fall short? My review is live on the Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/04/16/g... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Does the new musical All The World's a Stage deserve to be in the spotlight? My first look is live on the Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/04/08/a... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
All The World’s a Stage: First Look
Only two weeks into previews, the World Premiere of All the World’s a Stage is developing into a warm and enjoyable spring offering. Though set in 1996 in small-town Pennsylvania, sadly the t…
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April 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Does the new musical All The World's a Stage deserve to be in the spotlight? My first look is live on the Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/04/08/a... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Will you be counting the days until you can see Twelfth Night? My review of National Asian American Theatre Company's production at TheatreSquared is live on the Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/03/23/t... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night is arguably the most lovely of all of Shakespeare’s comedies. It reflects the same lighthearted and celebratory nature as the Christmas holiday for which it is named. Set …
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March 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Will you be counting the days until you can see Twelfth Night? My review of National Asian American Theatre Company's production at TheatreSquared is live on the Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/03/23/t... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Will Amerikin leave you in an altered state? My review is live on the Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/03/19/a... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
Amerikin
With his promising recent promotion, loyal best friend, and gorgeous new baby, Jeff Browning seems to be well on the way to living the life he’s always dreamed of. The acceptance of his appli…
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March 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Will Amerikin leave you in an altered state? My review is live on the Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/03/19/a... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
How well will you be served by My Man Kono? My review is live on the Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/03/02/m... @theatrecritics.bsky.social
My Man Kono
For nearly 20 years, Toraichi Kono worked for Charlie Chaplin during the period when the silent film star rose to prominence and notoriety. Originally hired as a driver, Kono became one of Ch…
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March 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
How well will you be served by My Man Kono? My review is live on the Unforgettable Line: theunforgettableline.com/2025/03/02/m... @theatrecritics.bsky.social