1,082 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
Early in the play, songs are sung by various members of the cast including the anachronistic "The House of the Rising Sun," (sung twice) set in New Orleans in the twentieth century. The cast…
Aside from the unevenness of the acting, Drance's production has no consistent tone, shifting from comedy to drama to tragedy and back again. Not all of his interesting ideas are carried thr…
Read by unseen British stage star Juliet Stevenson, "Blindness" is as timely as Albert Camus' "The Plague" with its story of an epidemic which affects first a community, then a city and fina…
"Lilies" is an attempt at old-fashioned theater or to couch a modern story in old-fashioned trappings. The problem with the play for modern audiences may be stated in its subtitle, "The Revi…
While the chronology is somewhat convoluted as the text occasionally skips around grouping some similar events (such as two trips to New York City), if you follow along, the script depicts W…
Directed by the author, "Two Sisters and a Piano" reveals its roots as a radio play from its reliance on poetry and language: this is a cat-and-mouse game in which the participants use words…
Set in a dark time, "Girl from the North Country" creates a community on stage as do the best plays and musicals. Its tale of lost souls attempting to keep their heads above water is univers…
For "Coal Country," an investigation into the April 5, 2010 West Virginia disaster at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch coal mine which killed 29 men, authors Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen ba…
Although director/choreographer Kathleen Marshall has given the Transport Group production staged at The Abroms Arts Center a rousing production, the major problem still exists with the stor…
The inspiration for "About Love" is Ivan Turgenev's "First Love," one of the greatest of all novellas. Subtitled "a play with songs and music," that is exactly what it is: a dramatic present…
Vivian Neuwirth's "Mr. Toole" is a fitting tribute to a charismatic teacher and a brilliant author. However, the play, in the form it currently is in, seems to have been shoehorned into a sh…
Mixing fiction and fact, new Signature Theatre Residency playwright Lauren Yee's "Cambodian Rock Band" is an engrossing, entertaining and appalling  investigation into the Khmer Rouge's g…
Following its opening production of Cy Coleman's equally rarely seen "Seesaw," J2 Spotlight Musical Theater Company is presenting a fully staged version of "No Strings" as the second product…
MCC Theater's New York premiere of C.A. Johnson's new play "All the Natalie Portmans" is a lovely work which resembles other such modern coming of age plays from Carson McCullers' "The Membe…
Pearl Cleage's "Blues for an Alabama Sky" gets a belated New York premiere courtesy of Keen Company in its 20th season. Although seen in many regional theaters since its 1995 premiere at the…
As the centerpiece of its spring season, Classic Stage Company is presenting a repertory of adaptations of two legendary Gothic horror stories: Bram Stoker's "Dracula" and Mary Shelley's "Fr…
Now that The Public Theater's 2019 revival of the late Nzotake Shange's "for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf" has been critically acclaimed once again, Th…
Although J2 Spotlight's artistic director Robert W. Schneider who staged this show has given it a vigorous production and cast a delightful Gittel in Stephanie Israelson, he is unable to dis…
In making her professional stage debut courtesy of Page 73, Zora Howard has written a powerful kitchen sink drama in 'Stew," as much about making a literal stew as about the emotional stew t…
The Mint Theater Company has rediscovered and championed British actor/playwright Miles Malleson with Conflict and Yours Unfaithfully. Now they have combined two of his one acts adapted from…
Bookwriter Jonathan Marc Sherman has wisely kept the story in its period. However, his dialogue is almost word for word lifted from the screenplay which is rather old hat for those of us hav…
While Simon Stone's adaptation is engrossing for its surprising updates, it never captures the emotions, seeming more like a gimmick that a reworking of the Greek tragedy. With most of the a…
An author can be too close to his or her material so that the real story fails to be revealed. Inspired by his own family events, Buzz McLaughlin's Sister Calling My Name has a fascinating p…
The New York Pops' latest concert, Find Your Dream, was a glorious tribute to nostalgia. Not only was it an evening of the beloved songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein with selectionsfrom all 11…
Laura Linney is never one to avoid a challenge. When she last appeared at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre she was alternating in the roles of "Regina" and "Birdie" in the…
