1,113 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
Greg Pierce, the author of "Slowgirl" and "Kid Champion," has often tackled hot button issues. Here in Cardinal being given its world premiere at Second Stage Theater, he takes on urban rene…
While the new cut-down version (performed concert style with book in hand) with nine actors instead of the original 36, now covers 100 years, rather than the sixty in the original show, it s…
The best reason to see Isobel Mahon's "Party Face" is to see the ever-lovely Hayley Mills who used to play mischievous teens and now is playing busy-body mothers. The play is diverting thoug…
The problem with Laura Braza's production is the lack of chemistry between Vasile Flutur's Jericho and Hannah Sloat's Julie. While Jericho should be charming and seductive, Flutur is only si…
John Haidar's energized production turns this material into a tour de force for Campbell and Lynch who are continually moving about spewing volumes of words, almost choreographed by movement…
Washington, D.C.'s acclaimed Happenstance Theater is making is New York debut with its 2015 show "BrouHaHa," which has been seen previously in Baltimore, Maine and New Haven. Taking for its …
Along with some contemporary updating which always gets a laugh, Albert Bergeret's direction is sharp and shrewd and his conducting of Sullivan's sprightly and animated score is equally assu…
Giving a performance of the caliber of his earlier Shakespeare's Globe portrayals of the Countess Olivia in "Twelfth Night" and the title role of "Richard III" which also played Broadway's B…
While not as memorable as several previous Fiasco Theater productions, this "Twelfth Night" takes a while to get where it is going. After winding up the plot in the first half, it settles do…
Moses' famously crowded and contentious career is glossed over except for his final battle with Jacobs over the Lower Manhattan Expressway. "Bulldozer" doesn't even give a good summary of hi…
The themes of Rajiv Joseph's latest political play are not only valid but relevant in today's climate. However, "Describe the Night" is too convoluted for its own good and attempts to make c…
Anton Chekhov once advised that if you show an audience a gun you are required to have it go off. Set on September 8, 1976, Seth Zvi Rosenfeld's new play, "Downtown Race Riot," being given i…
William Nicholson's "Shadowlands" is one of those subtle plays that grows on you as it evolves and weaves its own spell. Based on a true story of one the most improbable love stories of the …
Inspired by Henri Becque's notorious 1885 "La Parisienne," credited as the first Naturalistic French play, Willimon has taken its plot, characters and themes of sex, adultery, betrayal and p…
In the central character of Buffalo Bill Cody, Michael Hardart plays only the one role. The play seems to be his coming to terms with the mythologizing of his achievements. Although twice he…
There is nothing much very wrong with Susan Miller's '20th Century Blues" that a few more revelations or dustups wouldn't solve. Beth Dixon, Franchelle Stewart Dorn, Polly Draper, Kathryn Gr…
While this is not a Bedlam production as was Hamill's hugely successful stage version of Austen's second published novel, "Sense and Sensibility," director Amanda Dehnert has staged the play…
Such changes as Captain Hook being a woman or Tinker Bell speaking French are neither explained nor meaningful, while some of the doubling simply makes the play hard to follow as the charact…
Not only is Julia Cho's "Office Hour" rivetingly acted by Sue Jean Kim and Ki Hong Lee, it is one of the few plays in recent memory to tackle a major social problem and offer an explanation …
The conversations revolve around the topics of the New York Shakespeare Festival's poor finances in 1958, Vaughan's defection to the Phoenix Theatre which was paying a living wage while the …
Inspired by the true case of an affair between French diplomat Bernard Boursicot and Chinese opera singer Shi Pei Pu from 1960 " 1986 which led to a trial for espionage, Hwang's problem in 2…
There is a fascinating story to be told in Franz Kafka's involvement with the Yiddish theater in Prague during 1912 but Lu Hauser's play isn't it. "Prague, 1912 (The Savoy Café Yiddish Thea…
The problem is that under Albert Bonilla's stolid and matter-of-fact direction, Elizabeth Ingham and Zack Calhoon's characters never come alive. Just trading quips is not a sophisticated sty…
Leave it to George S. Kaufman and collaborator Morrie Ryskind (the Marx Brothers' "The Cocoanuts," "Animal Crackers," "A Night at the Opera" as well as the Gershwins' "Strike Up the Band"), …
While the script describes the setting as simply a "rural place," British and European productions apparently have set the play in medieval times. It is definitely pre-industrial as the farm…
