1,097 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
"Ari Wind's Inner Circle" is so incredible that it defies the imagination. Can these be called sleights of hand when we see everything that happens at all times? It is the sort of show that …
Singer/songwriter Jill Sobule's life story is on display in the charming cabaret musical "F*ck7thGrade" " with a difference. Sobule, the original "I Kissed a Girl" composer/lyricist, plays h…
"Small Talk," like its title suggests, is less unified than Quinn's earlier shows. He also uses its format to wander from topic to topic, seemingly randomly without much structure. It allows…
Not only is Livian Yeh's "Memorial" revealing in its historic depiction of a recent piece of American history, it is additionally a very satisfying dramatic work. It is also very pertinent n…
Eduardo Machado's 11th play to premiere at Theater for the New City is called "Not About Me" which is a complete misnomer as it is about his life for the last 40 years with his alter ego at …
Ivan Faute's "The Dog Show" is ambitious in trying to tell a story by holding back on the details. Unfortunately, the method has grave, unresolved problems. For most of the first act we have…
While Bettany and Pope are each very convincing as Warhol and Basquiat since they are made up to look exactly like they did in life, they seem to be in two different plays, using different a…
While Albert Bergeret's old-fashioned production does not sparkle, it is a solid, steady ship that satisfies with all its jokes intact plus a few new ones like the hilarious drunken scene be…
Under the direction of Karl Janes and Andy Smith, Tim Crouch is a very commanding performer, using his resonant baritone to paint pictures with words, holding our attention at all times. Nar…
McDonald is mesmerizing as she speaks Kennedy's strong, clear, poetic and evocative prose. We never forget that McDonald's Suzanne Alexander is giving a lecture but she changes ages in an in…
Michael Shannon, Hari Nef, Heather Alicia Simms, Arliss Howard and Johanna Day in a scene from Denis Johnson's "Des Moines" at Theatre for a New Audience (Photo credit: Gerry Goldstein) Vict…
In any event, Ruhl has not written a play set in 1692 or a sequel to "The Crucible" but a comedy about free-spirited Becky Nurse, a descendant of the accused witch Rebecca Nurse, a pious 71-…
Erik Ehn's title "The Weak and the Strong" taken from St. Paul may refer to the bad choices that some people make that others avoid, but it seems to only reinforce the clichés of most weste…
Jordan E. Cooper's scathing new racial comedy, "Ain't No Mo'" has made the successful transition to Broadway with five of the six original actors from the previous Public Theater staging in …
Famed performance artist John Kelly has brought his latest show, "Underneath the Skin" to La MaMa, subtitled "A Penetrative Portrayal of a Queer Giant Based on the life and work of Samuel St…
The cast is a combination of New York stage favorites (Stark Sands, "Kinky Boots," and Betsy Wolfe, "Waitress," "Falsettos" and "The Mystery of Edwin Drood"), new faces (Lorna Courtney, Ben …
Visually the show pulls out all of the stops continually making stage magic. Every scene offers new scenic effects and things that appear impossible but are right there on stage before you, …
Cale's story uses many film noir devices from the 1940's: exotic locale, strange encounters, searching down unknown streets, disappearing characters, a sexy stranger, danger signals avoided,…
Will Arbery's Evanston "Salt Costs Climbing" (set in the city in which the author received his Master of Fine Arts Degree in 2015) is a perplexing experience as it shifts from realism to abs…
"Camp Siegfried" is a new departure for the author of "Small Mouth Sounds," "Continuity," "Make Believe" and "Grand Horizons." Depicting an important piece of history in an age when hate spe…
Noel Coward's "The Rat Trap" is not only entertaining but seems to have been ahead of its time. Discounted by critics and the author alike when it had its only production until now in 1926, …
Writer/ director/actress Madeline Sayet is an engaging performer. Directed by Mei Ann Teo, her one-woman show "Where We Belong" is an autobiographical tale of her Mohegan roots and her seeki…
What Crowe has done in writing his own book for the new show is recreate almost exactly every scene in the movie starting from the time when 15-year-old hero William Miller meets rock critic…
Hudes has directed her own play in a delightful vaudeville/musical comedy style with dancing between the scenes to choreography by Ebony Williams to live music played by pianist Ariacne Truj…
The first Off Broadway revival of Edward Albee's " A elicate Balance," his first Pulitzer Prize-winning play (of three), is also the first to feature an all Asian American cast as well as be…
