1,113 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
The revival at the York is being seen in yet a new version of the show that began as a cabaret in 1981 and went to Broadway in 1985. Created by director Larry Alford, choreographer Wayne Alf…
Although the physical production has been well-thought-out, the script seems to have no interpretation other than a great deal of slapstick comedy which does not much register. The cast vari…
"Acolyte" by Graham Moore, Academy Award winner for his 2013 screenplay for "The Imitation Game," is a more substantial play than the other two. Based on an historical occurrence in 1954, it…
Aside from the destructive nature of the storm and that the "Pegasus" eventually arrives at a desert shore, there isn't much to be learned about climate change. We never know if Sleeper lost…
From Dominique Morisseau, the author of the critically acclaimed Skeleton Crew, Detroit '67 and Sunset Baby, comes another powerfully provocative and riveting, but overwrought, play which in…
Icke and MacMillan's version is tricked up with much multimedia, sound and lights, and disorientation. Faithful to the book, it claims to be the first adaptation to include Orwell's appendix…
True, here these Italian American sisters growing up in Park Slope, 1960, don't want to get to some place as much as get away from someplace else. As they exit their teens, their home has be…
Director Albert Schultz's program note explains that the production set itself two challenges: first, that Philip Carey would never leave the 16-foot red square center stage, and that all of…
Bastard Jones is surprisingly accessible for a contemporary musical based on a long and episodic 18th century novel. Sophisticated and off-color, naughty but nice, it proves to be a sharp an…
The Wall is also used by the performers who climb on it, disappear into it, and use it as both a platform and a launching pad. The most remarkable act is the finale " the "Trampo Wall" perfo…
He has updated the play to a contemporary city rife with decadence and corruption. The audience enters the theater from backstage in order to visit Mistress Overdone's brothel with sex toys …
Told mainly in reenacted flashbacks, In a Word plays multiple language games. It also proves the limits of language. Can you really describe exactly what happens at any given moment? And if …
The play is enlightening for a physically abled audience as to the needs of the disabled both physically and emotionally. Both stories include a tender, poignant bathing scene as the caretak…
"Sweetee" is an admirable attempt to depict determination in the face of prejudice in the Deep South 80 years ago. While the cast appears to be older than their characters, they make a valia…
Like in a Noel Coward comedy, the witty zingers come fast and furious: "That her big white Cadillac looks like a pregnant Frigidaire," "Did you say she was from Newark or Noah's Ark?", "Harl…
Say this for actor Hamish Linklater: he writes juicy parts for his fellow actors. He also knows how to set up a sense of community. The New Group production directed by its artistic director…
Unlike such political plays as Arthur Miller's "The Crucible," David Hare's "Stuff Happens" and the current "Oslo" by J.T. Rogers, Building the Wall is speculative political fiction. Project…
Expect great things from Udofia in the future. Both plays demonstrate that she writes full-bodied, three-dimensional characters, while "Her Portmanteau" reveals that she can also write a pla…
The playing space designed by Doyle is a narrow white runway with a stool at one end and at the other, an archway created by continuing the flooring into the air on which Japanese writing ap…
Director Jesse Marchese has cast the play very strangely. Ari Brand's Bob is a good deal shorter than his younger brother so that one must continually remind one's self which is which. As Pa…
The opening resembles that of Mann's novel: a horse and buggy deliver a visitor to a tuberculosis sanitarium on a mountain top overlooking a valley, suggesting that the unspecified time is 1…
Hnath's new story is absorbing and twisty, interestingly creating an entirely new set of ethical and social questions than was handled by Ibsen in 1879. He has handled it in a similar fashio…
McCollum is both charming and charismatic playing among other characters the self-entitled and irresponsible Bruce, the hippie techie Sal, Kat's spaced-out boss Madison, and the intrepid and…
Retro Productions'Â 50th anniversary revival of Paul Zindel's "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little" put the spotlight on an almost forgotten play that is worthy of revival. Shay Gines' produ…
The two leads David Spadora and Morgan Cowling are charming but that isn't really enough to carry the show. The script isn't too kind to their parents. As Big Harry, Lenny Wolpe is overbeari…
