1,126 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
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…
Well-meaning and sincere," Occupied Territories" is both generic and stereotyped, offering a story television and the movies have been offering for years: the traumatic effect of a father's …
King's "Dolores Claiborne" would seem a strange choice for dramatization as the book is a monologue told entirely by its protagonist at a police interrogation over a murder on Little Tall Is…
Boycott gets to sing a bounty of scintillating songs including "It's A Perfect Relationship," "Is It A Crime?," "I'm Goin' Back" and her duets with Heuser in "Better Than a Dream" (written f…
In Jonathan Silverstein's production, Arnie Burton and Matt McGrath as two friends who handle their fears of an unnamed epidemic in opposite ways do not seem to connect as real friends would…
Director John Collins, founder of ERS, has set the play in an office or conference room with three long tables (in Jim Findlay's design which eventually grows tiresome) Â and a great many …
It is possible to enjoy Brian Friel's "The Home Place" without knowing the background to this historical play set in rural Ireland in 1878 as a Chekhovian representation of a world about to …
While the acting is compelling, the threesome does not reveal many layers to their characters; they establish a persona and stick to it, without divulging any further information. As Mae, Ni…
While not all musicals from Shakespeare have worked and updates are particularly risky, "Desperate Measures" avoids all of the pitfalls and is a refreshing and satisfying work in its own rig…
Director Ralph Lewis, apparently not trusting the material " or finding the play too dated " has staged a carnival-esque version (adapted by S.M. Dale in June 2016) which includes 16 songs a…
Part of the problem is the lack of innovation in Ray Roderick's staging in this show which calls out for invention and clever handling of sets and props. Devin Vogel's colorless stage design…
Although director Kimberly Senior who also piloted the Chicago production has staged the play with elegance, she never really turns up the heat so that there are not many sparks in Carter's …
The central character is actually Mrs. Fisher who worries about her children and plots to open Amy's eyes to her husband's faults. Unfortunately, Annette O'Toole has been directed to play he…
