1,126 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
However, the play's humor is very mild. The jokes are on the level of "My steeple is drooping! I swear this never happened to me before," from Pastor Peters, and "George Washington dined on …
Set in a dark time, "Girl From the North Country" creates a community on stage as do the best plays and musicals. Its tale of lost souls attempting to keep their heads above water is univers…
In dramatizing the story of Wernher von Braun, James Wallert's "The Winning Side" makes compelling the concept of ethics in science: should we admire a mathematical genius who has had antith…
It would be a pleasure to report that A.R. Gurney's last play entitled "Final Follies" performed with two early works, is one of his best, but that is not the case. As directed by David Sain…
"Bernhardt/Hamlet" is structured as a backstage comedy. Sarah rehearses with French stage star Constant Coquelin playing both The Ghost and Polonius, worries that she is losing 29-year-old l…
What gives "A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur" its special cachet in the Williams canon is that its storyline and heroine called Dorothea very much suggest a prequel to A Streetcar Named Desir…
Previous experiments from this adventurous theater group helmed by artistic director Eric Tucker include two versions of Twelfth Night performed in repertory, Hamlet and Saint Joan performed…
Stranger still is the choice of Angelica Page to play Dickinson who looks rather too healthy to be the famously thin and sallow-faced writer known from the one famous photograph. She makes D…
If these characters sound familiar, they are based on real people who populated Albany politics four decades ago. "The True," a world premiere play by Sharr White ("The Other Place," "The Sn…
Considering the repetitiveness of the material and the fancifulness of the play, Megan McQueen as Rosie Ramirez and Kevin Rico Angulo as Det. Jimmy Marks make a great deal more of their char…
The actual subtitle of Silverman's play gives one pause: "In Essence, A Queer and Occasionally Hazardous Exploration; Do You Remember When You Were in Middle School and You Read About Shackl…
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…
