1,126 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
Dan Wackerman's revival for The Peccadillo Theater Company and Woodie King, Jr.'s New Federal Theatre has an equally starry cast some of whom have not appeared on New York stages for quite a…
In a departure for him, the three actresses play all of the characters, both female and male, and are listed in the program simply as 1, 2 and 3. While the play feels undramatic and has no h…
Will Eno's wry, contemporary 'Gnit" solves the problem of attempting to stage Ibsen's unwieldy, five-hour verse play "Peer Gynt." The play given its world premiere at the Humana Festival of …
The question arises who is the intended audience. The 60-minute show is too slow for young children and too repetitious for adults. Possibly this is meant for the nostalgia crowd of which th…
D.W. Gregory's docudrama "Radium Girls" being given its New York premiere after a run in New Jersey over 20 years ago attempts to put the story and subsequent lawsuits on stage. Part of the …
George Bernard Shaw's once-banned problem comedy due to its controversial subject matter concerning prostitution, "Mrs. Warren's Profession" has been given a stylish and elegant revival by t…
This mashup proves to be both too convoluted and too long at two hours and 20 minutes. Beane has, however, given the play a top flight send off with a starry cast of some of the most distinc…
Keenan Scott II's engrossing Broadway debut play, Thought of a Colored Man, appears to be a masculine version of Ntozake Shange's 1976 "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the…
Douglas Lyons' new comedy, "Chicken & Biscuits" introduces us to the dysfunctional Jenkins/Mabry clan at the funeral of its patriarch Bernard, the former pastor of his New Haven church. …
Although the characters never meet in person, they communicate mostly through letters that are spoken by the actors directly to the audience, and then halfway through the play, in texting wh…
While Marshall Pailet's direction is breezy and fastpaced, the dialogue has too many Borscht belt jokes ("Take my Grandma, for instance. No really take her-," Camp Rosenblatt, "As my Grandma…
Bedlam's 2014 production of "Sense and Sensibility," adapted by Kate Hamil from the novel by Jane Austen, and directed by Eric Tucker, set the bar so high for cleverness, originality and wit…
Martyna Majok writes powerfully and brilliantly about marginalized people, particularly undocumented immigrants living in Northern New Jersey, as in "Ironbound" and her 2018 Pulitzer Prize-w…
Holmes' songs include clever lyrics particularly "Facebook," "I Can Be That Guy" and "Beautiful Girl in the Front Row." His expert playing on the keyboard allows him to have duets with himse…
Performed by a cast of 15 singers and enacted in pantomime by numerous local volunteers all dressed in swimwear, Sun & Sea is a typical day at the beach in which we hear the thoughts of …
The new play, ironically, does not take place in Rhinebeck, New York, like the preceeding 11 plays but as explained in its subtitle it concerns "Conversations in Angers, France," the home of…
As his mother Bete (pronounced Bet"chi), Soria is bigger than life without a great deal of assistance from props, costuming or make-up. When he enters carrying an offering to the stage which…
Written and directed by White who is the Obie and Lily Award winning director of "Our Dear Dead Drug Lord" (WP Theater) and "What to Send Up When It Goes Down" (Public Theater, BAM Fisher an…
The problem with the show now at The Jerry Orbach Theater is director Tim Drucker's frenetic, over-the-top staging and the artificially broad presentational style of the acting, similar to -…
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…
