1,126 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
"Jerry Springer - The Opera" is not for opera purists nor is for people who are easily offended by four letter words and other bad language of which there is a multitude. However, its irreve…
Originally titled "A Test Case" when the play had its premiere in New York in 1892, it is one of Daly's many adaptations of European successes, this one based on a German comedy of Blumentha…
Jordan Harrison's "The Amateurs" is certainly an ambitious new play acted to the hilt by its cast of six. However, at times it bites off more than it can handle, at other times its anachroni…
"Subways Are for Sleeping" is a valentine to New York and projection designer Lacey Erb has created atmospheric slides and streaming video of such iconic locations as Grand Central Station, …
Although an interesting idea, James Inverne's "A Walk With Mr. Heifetz" has lofty ambitions which it is unable to fulfill. While the advertisement proclaims that these two encounters "change…
Marcus Gardley's "X: Or, Betty Shabazz V. The Nation" is a powerful indictment of forces within a movement which help to destroy it. Performed by The Acting Company under the direction of Ia…
The cast seems to have been mostly chosen for their comic skills rather than their singing skills. Nevertheless, Josh Waldren and Matthew Fairless as the visiting travelers turn "Dear Old Sy…
Stop me if you've heard this one before: three people walk into a bar where they are known by the drinks they order. Only in Kate Benson's new play "[Porto]," the unnamed bar is in a gentrif…
"Bar Mitzvah Boy" may not be a top-drawer Jule Styne musical, but Jack Rosenthal's original story and David Thompson's new book are excellently observed to have the ring of truth. The family…
Playwrights Horizons has a real winner with the first entry in its new Redux Series bringing back worthy Off Off Broadway plays for a longer run Off Broadway. First up is "Miles for Mary," a…
We are never told the name of the play being rehearsed or who the characters in the play within the play are. In the second act, the performers dressed in their costumes for Gabriele's play …
Whereas Kennedy became famous with plays that use myth, history, surrealism and Theater of the Absurd to tell their stories, this play tells a realistic tale in poetic form, its very brevity…
Stanley Houghton's once controversial "Hindle Wakes" explodes everything you have ever been taught about the double standard and the place of women in society. The irrefutable logic of the c…
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…
