1,126 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
Tracy Letts' latest play to reach New York via the Chicago Steppenwolf production is the comedy drama, "Linda Vista," in which a 50-year-old white man in San Diego going through a messy divo…
The performances as well as the dialogue are cool and unemotional as you might expect from four professionals used to doing their jobs, until about three quarters of the way through when Win…
As part of its Fall 2019 Musicals in Mufti Cole Porter Series, The York Theatre Company has smartly revived this 1965 Ben Bagley - Cole Porter revue not seen in New York in 54 years. Pamela …
The problem with Vaynberg's play, now being given its Off Broadway premiere, in which she plays the lead female role, is that it has so many interlocking plots that it can give you a headach…
What is evident is that Zeller writes tremendous roles for actors. Frank Langella won the Tony Award back in 2016 for the title role of "The Father," and "The Height of the Storm" may well w…
Despite the fine writing and acting, these two plays do not stand alone: we are given no backstory to understand the context for these relationships in the longer saga; both plays dealing wi…
When the Gingold Theatrical Group's revival of Bernard Shaw's epic "Caesar and Cleopatra" begins, the characters are wearing white contemporary clothes and sitting on what looks like an exca…
Still delightful, mainly due to Porter's score, the book by Herbert Fields (who went on to write six more Porter shows) has its charms with its snappy Jazz Age dialogue which makes fun of th…
Legendary director Peter Brook has always investigated the big questions. In recent years his productions have become more intimate and the questions bigger. In "Why?", written and directed …
Cusi Cram's "Novenas for a Lost Hospital" (with dramaturgy by Guy Lancaster) presented by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is an unusual site-specific theatrical event that pays tribute to th…
Co-presented by The Theater at the 14th Street Y, '…it's time…" explored the dynamics of a small group of five"excellent"performers whose existence appeared to be controlled by a large d…
The Flea Theater is honoring one of its co-founding members, playwright Mac Wellman, with a five play festival called "Perfect Catastrophes" which includes two world premieres and three revi…
If you are put off by the idea of women defining themselves based on the men in their lives, then Lois Robbins' one-woman play "L.O.V.E.R." is not for you. However, if you concede that there…
Cobb is titanic in this piece bringing his resonant voice and impressive physical presence to bear on the most famous classic role for a Black actor in the canon as well as his thoughts abou…
Making is U.S. debut 19 years after its Scottish premiere in an actual park, Douglas Maxwell's "Decky Does a Bronco" is a worthy addition to the dramatic literature of plays about childhood …
Hopkins had added selections from Lewis Carroll (references to the Jabberwock and "The White Knight's Song: The Aged Age Man," the poem which gives her the new title), Emily Dickinson ("I'm …
Poseidon Theatre Company's "The Cooping Theory 1969: Who Killed Edgar Allan Poe?," described as a "new immersive paranormal experience," is set at the RPM Underground which is more interesti…
Bess Wohl's new play, "Make Believe," is a fascinating study of how the traumas of childhood affect our adult lives, particularly the damage seen and unseen parents inflict on their offsprin…
Deborah Whitfield's 'Tech Support" offers a clever idea in order to review feminism in the past century. Unfortunately, her rather superficial approach misses a great many opportunities. The…
Jonathan Spector's "Eureka Day" now having its East Coast premiere at Walkerspace is a blisteringly satiric and provocative play torn right out of the headlines. Ostensibly about how one pro…
Described as a multimedia production, "Da Vinci & Michelangelo: The Titans Experience" is actually a lecture by art historian Mark Rodgers to slides of the masterpieces of these two geni…
Lenore Skomal's "The Exes" wants to revive the Broadway-style sex comedies of the 1950's and 60's, earlier called boulevard comedy. Unfortunately, not only is the formula passé but televisi…
William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night Dream" is perfect comedy for July or August and adding a meal is an even cleverer idea. Presented jointly by Food for Love Productions and Third Rail…
"Midsummer: A Banquet" is an auditory and oral treat, a light entertainment for this time of year. Using Zach Morris and Victoria Rae Sook's skillfully adapted abridgment of Shakespeare's c…
Kelley's adaptation begins with the murder of Mary which avoids preparing us for the limited life of opportunity that Bigger leads in the Black Belt of Chicago and making him less sympatheti…
