1,082 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
While Jessica Dickey's "The Convent" may not have any new answers and may cover familiar material, it does so with such vitality and theatricality, that it becomes a memorable experience. U…
Six actors, three men and three women, in a company of seven, play many roles in this fluid production designed by Anna Driftmier that uses several different doorways, Â on-stage props and…
Humorist and journalist Calvin Trillin has made his wife Alice Stewart Trillin, educator, writer, mother and muse, famous from such books as "Alice, Let's Eat," "Travels with Alice" and "Fam…
Irish actors Niall Buggy and David Ganly returning to their original roles play two murderers sharing a cell in Dublin's Montjoy Jail. The fiftyish PJ (Ganly) and the sixtyish Christy (Buggy…
Ireland gives a big performance that is almost larger than life. From the moment we meet her, she commands the stage. Watch how intently she listens to the others or how you can hear her tho…
While "Clueless, The Musical" is never less than slick and professional in the best possible way, for those who know the iconic film it offers no surprises so slavishly does it follow …
Nothing is what it seems in Jeremy 0. Harris' startling and explosive "Slave Play" which investigates where race and sexual relationships intersect. What we have been watching in the play's …
In the course of this unusual performance piece, the actor and the audience learn a bit of Farsi, the author's native language, and actor and author share stories of their lives and likes, a…
Intended for young people and their families, the jokey dialogue will amuse teenagers as well as teach them about the glass ceiling that talented women have had to fight against up until the…
Director Ivo Van Hove's stage version of the Paddy Chayefsky cult film "Network" gives Bryan Cranston the role of a lifetime as Howard Beale, the UBS news commentator who has a nervous break…
The holiday season is in for an irreverent satirizing in Gary Apple's musical comedy "Christmas in Hell," a rude and entertaining fable for adults. With book, music and lyrics by Apple, a wr…
The world premiere of "The Apple Boys: A Barbershop Quartet Musical" is a delightful show that pays tribute to this uniquely American art form. In a mash-up of history it also recognizes a g…
One of the beauties of the book by Mills and Reichel is that all of the characters in the large dramatis personae are very well defined and we have no trouble knowing who is who. Reichel's d…
Tom Stoppard, our most cerebral modern playwright, has finally written a play that one would have expected from him all along. "The Hard Problem," his first play in ten years, is literally a…
"Quicksand," Nella Larsen's 1928 award-winning first novel, has been given an ambitious, epical stage adaptation by Everyday Inferno Theatre Company working out of the IRT Theater. While Reg…
In a time of fake news, these timely and topical questions are raised in the delightful new Broadway play "The Lifespan of a Fact," a dramatization by Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell and…
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is presenting a theatrical event by Idaho theater poet Samuel D. Hunter ("The Whale," "A Bright New Boise," "The Few," "Pocatello," "The Healing," "The Harves…
While Alex Roe's minimalist production is both sharp and engrossing, the play offers viewers several problems. Aside from the three main characters, the play has 23 other speaking roles with…
Ostensibly about domestic abuse, the evidence is all offstage and we must surmise this from the defeated condition of the heroine Irene played by Ms. Daly. Her husband Gerry (John Procaccino…
In offering a window on a world most New York theatergoers know little about, Hansol Jung's Wild Goose Dreams is a fascinating look at Korean culture. On the other hand, what appears to be a…
Both a theatrical surprise and a very accomplished dramatic work, Patricia Ione Lloyd's "Eve's Song" is one of the best theatrical experiences to be had in New York at this time. With a cast…
As proven elsewhere, Steven Levenson is expert at depicting young people in crisis on stage. "Days of Rage" is very real in its handling of a group of people of similar beliefs living togeth…
Played by Pascale Armand, known for her Tony nominated Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in "Eclipsed," Angela is the heroine of Lauren Gunderson's new one-woman play, "Natur…
What begins as light comedy in Michael McKeever's well-made play "Daniel's Husband" becomes deadly serious in this cautionary tale. If the plot seems familiar, this is a return engagement of…
Playwright Jaclyn Backhaus made an auspicious splash with her adventurous and inventive 2016 play Men on Boats about Major John Wesley Powell's 1868 Colorado and Grand Canyon expedition whic…
