1,090 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
While Barry was to become famous writing plays about the very rich, the Whites are of the middle class and live on earned money. In the play's second act, eight months have passed, and money…
Gingold Theatrical Group's "Heartbreak House" is an interesting but misguided attempt to update Shaw's Edwardian masterpiece and make it seem more relevant to our times. Despite the stellar …
Using a format that has worked for him before in his George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein evenings, Hershey Felder has returned to 59E59 Theaters in a charming biographical musical as legen…
Although "Smokey Joe's Café" has been seen in New York before, the new production now at Stage 42 is an entirely different incarnation of the show that still holds the record for Broadway m…
The mellow sound of Brandt's score proves to be easy listening, but the individual musical numbers do not build to any dramatic climaxes so that the show seems tamer than material concerning…
"Days to Come" fills in the gap in Hellman's career between her first play, the controversial "The Children's Hour," and the immediate successors, the hugely commercial hit and often revived…
"Be More Chill" is an impressive musical version of Ned Vizzini's cult novel. Not only does it reproduce the plot on stage, it also gives it a high tech look that dramatizes the story where …
The clever invention is that each of them has a best friend who only they can see and hear: Neurosis (Brennan Caldwell) is Frank's best buddy, a more cautious, nervous version of Frank, and …
If the show plays like it was written by a committee, in fact, it has been. The book is by producer/ writer Ken Davenport and The Grundleshotz who turn out to be a group of performers and wr…
Comedian/monologist Mike Birbiglia, best known for "Sleepwalk with Me," has the remarkable knack of finding humor in autobiographical crises that shouldn't be funny but in his hands are upro…
Shaina Taub's joyful and sunny updated musical version of Shakespeare's comedy, "Twelfth Night," is back in a full production courtesy of Free Shakespeare in the Park and Public Works which …
Under Michael Mayer's fast-paced direction, "Head Over Heels" starts badly and busily but eventually slows down to a delightful Elizabethan parody on love and gender. While not all of The Go…
Along with its twists and turns, Bohjalian's "Grounded" is so fully explored that it is hard to believe that it is a first play. On the long wait on the runway at Kennedy Airport for a fligh…
Gardley makes use of a little known piece of American history: while Louisiana was under Spanish and later French rule, it had a three-tiered racial system. Aside from white settlers and bla…
The plays in Summer Shorts 2018 - Festival of New American Short Plays have often had a theme running through all the offerings in one evening, however they were concealed or obscured. This …
Having added the 200-seat indoor Touchstone Theatre in 2009 to the outdoor Hill Theater with a capacity of 1,089, the season which began on June 14 now runs until November 18. It currently s…
If "The After-Dinner Joke"'s 66 scenes seem cinematic, that is due to the fact that it originally was a teleplay commissioned by BBC for the series "Plays for Today" examining public issues.…
n what easily could have become a one-man show, playwright Strand has cleverly created dramatic tension by first introducing us to a second character and later a third. Set during the 2012-2…
Charlotte Moore's version streamlines the plot somewhat from Lerner's original by eliminating Daisy's fiancé for whom she wants to quit smoking as well as a subplot with Greek shipping magn…
Add to this list Mike Lew's new witty and clever "Teenage Dick" (being given its world premiere by Ma-Yi Theater Company in association with the Public Theater), both an update and a parody …
Sixtyish Eric Miller is an angry white man, hating Catholics, Blacks, homosexuals, women, and other groups. He has also become very nationalistic. He not only wants to tell the world, he thi…
Using a tremendously talented and versatile cast of nine actors (three black male actors, three black female actors, as well as three white performers) playing from three roles to 12, the st…
Unlike the musicals "Rent" (an update on Puccini's "La Boheme"), and "Miss Saigon' (inspired by Puccini's "Madame Butterfly") both of which had all new music by other composers for their con…
With Miles Malleson's 1925 "Conflict," being given its New York premiere, the Mint has uncovered a brilliant political and social drama which has tremendous relevance for today with its diss…
Harmon's new play resembles "Admissions," his last New York offering seen at Lincoln Center this March, in that it debates a topic from many sides but then fails to give us the author's poin…
