1,133 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
Scott Fitzgerald’s 1922 short story, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” has now been turned into a British folk musical resetting the tale in Cornwall, England. With book and lyric…
Aside from eliminating two characters (Judge Kentley’s sister and the young men’s housekeeper) from the original play, Greenburg’s adaptation uses several theatrical techniques which m…
Jen Diamond’s "The Morbs" attempts to do two things: create a thriller from a new pandemic called “The Morbs” as well as examine female friendship with the reunion of three sorority si…
The cast of “Copperfield! The New Musical” at The Duke on 42nd Street (Photo credit: Jeremy Daniel) While many of Charles Dickens’ novels have been adapted successfully for the musical…
While Jamie Armitage’s "A Ghost in Your Ear" is only intermittently scary (though those scares are worth the price of admission,) it is a chilling ghost story expertly told. Both written a…
Elsa Went’s last play "Initiative" was a five-hour epic about a group of high school students from their first day to graduation. "Degenerates," her new play being given its world premiere…
Inspired by the Twitter debate in July 2022 as to whether Holocaust victim Anne Frank acknowledged her white privilege (as much good as it did her),"Slam Frank", the musical satire of "The D…
Ryan J. Haddad’s deliciously comic but ultimately poignant "Good Time Charlie" having its world premiere at The Public Theater is his first non-monologue play. This time he uses seven acto…
Matt de Rogatis as Bjorn Faulkner and Hannah Beemer as Lady Justice and the company of the Ruth Stage production of Ayn Rand’s “Night of January 16th” at Theatre Row (Photo credit: Gab…
A good deal of the interplay comes from the clash between the famously combative Kramer and the cool, scientific Fauci. Kramer criticizes Fauci for saying that science has to work slowly to …
"Soon" is a timely attempt to deal with climate change while wedding it to more personal happenings in a person’s life. Writing book, music and lyrics, Nick Blaemire could have used anothe…
"Our Sinatra, A Musical Celebration" which was first seen in 1999 at the Algonquin Hotel’s Oak Room and then moved to the Blue Angel Theatre and later the Reprise Room for a total run of 1…
"After All These Years" is a new sophisticated musical revue paying tribute to the songs of Al Tapper who has been in the business for five decades with the composer/lyricist narrating the s…
The major problem with director Joan Kane’s production is that the play is too slow and sluggish, needing to be faster and more breakneck. As a result, the jokes don’t land as the audien…
Before 2017 and the Affordable Care Act, insurance companies were allowed to discriminate against domestic violence survivors (including rape) as having a pre-existing condition. First time …
Actress Elizabeth Marvel and director Lee Sunday Evans’ "The Ford/Hill Project," a docudrama first seen in New York in 2024 which uses the verbatim text of the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas S…
Don’t believe all you hear: Damien Warren-Smith appearing as his alter ego Garry Starr in Classic Penguins is entirely in the nude. However, all the ads say he covers all 1,000+ Penguin pa…
Damon Horowitz as Hamlet Guide with Truman Gaudoin as Guildenkranz, Desirée Baxter as Gertrude, Jim Pratzon as Polonius and Tyler Moss as Horatio in a scene from The Directors Company prese…
This year’s Public Works’ production of "Public Record" at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park is a tribute and celebration to New York and the people who live in all five boroughs, wi…
Not only is L. B. Browne’s play "Safe House" a very accomplished dramatic work, it also manages to be a play for our time including many of the themes of our daily life. Director Benjamin …
At A.R.T./New York Theatres, Smoking Mirror Theatre Company’s production of Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream," running through September 13th, offers the kind of theatrical esc…
The ability to see all five rooms in the house is par of the fun as you will find yourself constantly looking around to see where the next shock will occur from illusions designer Chris Fish…
Currently to be seen at the Lynn F. Angelson Theater, adaptor/director Laura Strausfeld has renamed her production "The Real Ivanov," a streamlined version which “preserves almost every li…
In "An American Daughter," Wendy Wasserstein approaches a topic still relevant: how American women in public life are expected to be perfect in all things while the men are given a pass for …
Revivals today tend to come in several similar varieties: rewritten updates by famous contemporary playwrights, director projects that have high concepts, and entirely new plays inspired by …
