1,092 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
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…
Jackie Sibblies Drury is a unique new voice in the American theater. Her use of metatheater is all her own. "Fairview" has a great deal to say about race in America and the angle you see thi…
Although the advance publicity for Ben Josephson's "The Property" refers to it as a comedy, there is nothing funny about it, neither jokes nor comic situations. In fact, the heroine's desper…
In the recent Metropolitan Opera production of Verdi's "Otello," Otello was white which left no reason for his jealousy if he was identical to all the Venetians around him. In the current Sh…
Director Lucy Gram uses six actors to play 11 roles which has worked for such companies as Bedlam and Fiasco. However, here the four actresses play both men and women, three of them never ch…
The chance to see Anton Chekhov's first produced play, "Ivanov," not only in the original Russian (with English surtitles) but in modern dress proves to be a revelation. Staged by Russia's S…
Her newest work, "Fruit Trilogy," an evening of three one acts, "Pomegranate," "Avocado" and "Coconut," has all of the strengths and weaknesses of her previous stage plays which include goin…
Though it wouldn't be fair to reveal it here for audiences about to see the play, the "secret" actually turns out to be one that has been widely known for some time as it is all over the Int…
The letters alternate with the musical portions played by Ji on piano, Ari Evan on cello and Stephanie Zyzak on violin in various combinations which are beautiful but it is never clear in wh…
While "Brokeback Mountain" impresses in its sincerity, it does not move which is a serious problem considering the romantic and tragic plot. Director Jacopo Spirei's cast is in fine form as …
While "The Beast in the Jungle" is a musical for our time it contains a message that was dear to the heart of writer Henry James, that of the unlived life. Ultimately very moving when the st…
Standing in the way of the show's success is the workshop-like production. Some of Pellegrino's melodies are pleasant but musical director Michael Wittenberg's piano playing drowns out many …
We learn a great deal about hospice, possibly more than one might want to know in a play. While most death watch plays like Edward Albee's "All Over" and Scott McPherson's "Marvin's Room," t…
Played as older than either Viola or Sebastian, Elizabeth Heflin is charmingly eccentric as the strong cougar who becomes lovesick and yielding at the sight of Cesario and then Sebastian. In…
Unlike many of the recent New York stagings, Eyre's production makes it clear that the thrust of this four act play is an attempt for the Tyrones to exorcise their demons in one alcoholic in…
Hodges' play is quite lively with each scene dramatizing one point and the cast of characters made up entirely of real people, not all of them still famous. The real problem is with the unsu…
Every once in a while the exactly right actor is matched with the right role and magic occurs. Such is the case with Juan Francisco Villa as the 34-year-old Tennessee Williams (before he bec…
Although the title covers part of the plot, the play is really a trenchant social history of Britain from 1925 " 1985 in four short sequences, showing the changes that take place in one hous…
Aside from being a tight domestic drama, The Jewish King Lear has several other differences from Shakespeare's tragedy. Gordin's Lear has a wife who is sorely put upon and under her husband'…
The play is narrated by Carr through his memories as an doddering 80-year-old man, returning him (and us) to his days as a 30-year-old resident of Zurich. As such he both unreliable, alterin…
As Cristofer, Juan Castano is riveting in his honesty and his assurance. You could hear a pin drop during several of his monologue confessions as to why he didn't do as well as he might have…
What makes the storytelling riveting are the performances by the talented cast. As the free-spirited Beatriz fighting for her life, Rubin-Vega is at her fiercest and she is a memorable three…
Fey has made two successful changes to theatricalize her original screenplay. The story is now cast as a flashback narrated by best friends Goth Janis (Barrett Wilbert Weed) and Damian (Grey…
In performance, "One Thousand Nights and One Day" is a like a play with songs shoehorned in as none of them forward the story but take the emotional temperature of the characters instead. Wi…
