1,082 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
When a playwright adapts a famous, well-known story for the stage the problem becomes how to tell it in a new way that makes it seem unfamiliar and fresh. Otherwise, why bother retelling it …
On paper the concept should not work: scenes and characters have been cut, a Shakespeare sonnet has been added set to music, as well as a Greek song, and four characters originally written f…
It is not difficult to see what attracted Metropolitan Playhouse to Ardrey's drama: its message that one cannot shut one's self off from the problems of the world as the America First moveme…
Speaking alternately, the six women talk of food, traditions, love, family, beliefs, ethics, dreams, abuse and New Zealand men. They speak of their dreams of a future and a better life. The …
Dion Boucicault's "London Assurance" is still a witty and lively play after almost 180 years. With its farcical elements laid over a drawing room comedy plot, Charlotte Moore's adroit produc…
Leland Fowler, Jamyl Dobson and Edward Mawere in a scene from Donja R. Love's "one in two" in a world premiere production by The New Group at The Pershing Square Signature Center (Photo cred…
Samuel H. Levine, Kyle Soller and Andrew Burnap in a scene from Matthew Lopez's "The Inheritance" at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (Photo credit: Marc Brenner) Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief To…
A product of the tumultuous thirties whose work was banned by the Nazis even though he was not Jewish, Von Horváth was particularly interested in social criticism of the middle-class and …
Beloved television stars Harry Hamlin (L.A. Law) and Stefanie Powers (Hart to Hart) return to the New York stage in Joshua Ravetch's "One November Yankee" which they previously performed at …
Told in leisurely style, Greater Clements is about the decline (and possible fall) of the American dream. Hunter appears to be saying that this is a long-time coming and its roots go very de…
Alyssa May Gold, Rebecca Jimenez, Carmen Berkeley and Malika Samuel in a scene from Alexis Scheer's "Our Dear Dead Drug Lord" at the McGinn/Cazale Theater (Photo credit: Shira Friedman) Vict…
Tony Triano as Santa Claus in a scene from the Argyle Theatre production of Meredith Willson's "Miracle on 34th Street, The Musical" (Photo credit: Richard Termine) Victor Gluck, Editor-in-C…
Another way to look at the play is as the twelve stages of man and woman, going Shakespeare five more steps. Unlike Tracy Letts' Mary Page Marlowe, in which the heroine was played by a diffe…
Having won the 2014 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award for "I and You," this is the fourth production of a Lauren Gunderson play in New York since …
For those younger members of the audience who do not know Edmond Rostand's classic French play, "Cyrano de Bergerac," the new musical "Cyrano" presented by The New Group at the Darryl Roth T…
While MarÃa Irene Fornés'Â "Fefu and Her Friends" is considered a feminist statement, in performance the play seems not to be very revealing about women or their positions other than t…
Having had a success with Of Thee I Sing in 2017, MasterVoices had chosen to stage the sequel with an equally starry cast made up of most of the singers from the previous show in the same ro…
As produced by Bedlam in association with The Nora, Arthur Miller's 1953 tragedy, "The Crucible," based on the Salem Witch Trials proves to be both riveting and relevant all over again. In t…
Alan Lightman's 1992 internationally best-selling novel "Einstein's Dreams" would seem like an unlikely choice for stage adaptation as the original book is made up of 30 variations on theori…
"Truffles: Music! Mushrooms! Murder!!!" is a dinner theater musical mystery set in the very restaurant (The Secret Room) where the audience is having dinner. This return engagement of the lo…
"Slava's Snowshow" is a unique experience. It is clowning of a sophisticated sort with its wordless skits which takes it beyond language. Its set pieces are outrageous enough to transcend an…
Produced by Transport Group in association with The Public Theater and directed with precision, clarity and simplicity by Transport Group's artistic director Jack Cummings III, this story of…
There have been many adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth but none of them probably as entertaining as the new musical "Scotland, PA." Presented in the cartoon style of "Little Shop of Horror…
Richard Nelson's latest play, "The Michaels" (subtitled a "Conversation During Difficult Times") is a thing of beauty. Low-key like his "Apple Family" quartet and his "The Gabriels" trilogy,…
As directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel, the play is fast-paced and engrossing and the smell of garlic coming from the stage convinces us that real cooking is going on. The completely working …
