1,126 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
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…
Although the play seems to have something to say about economics and political systems, it is simply a very light romantic comedy making use of elements of change during the Great Depression…
Written by the same team that created the musical version of "Grey Gardens" (Doug Wright, book, Scott Frankel, music, and Michael Korie, lyrics) which gave Ebersole the two best roles of her…
As the ageing matinee idol who never forgets to check his appearance in the mirror, Kline plays a man who is always acting, both on stage and off. His animated physicality in his roles has a…
The play seems to be in the genre of the classic Western movie though highly poeticized and slow-paced. It resembles the 60's films of Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah but with much less plot …
In between the scenes between the two men in Beau's living room, Rufus records Beau's reminiscences of his life and times. In this way, Sherman gives us a review of what things were like for…
Theaterworks NYC's stage version of Rick Riordan's best-selling novel, "The Lighting Thief," about Percy Jackson and other demi-gods, first seen in 2014, has returned in an expanded two act …
Tucker's production uses seven actors playing 20 named characters plus members of the ensemble: the women (Joey Parsons and Hamill play one each, good girl Amelia Sedley and bad girl Becky S…
The scenic design with original concept by the late Adrian Vaux, production design by Totie Driver & Matt Kinley, and projections by Luke Halls is as eye-filling as a movie would be. Th…
The show has a great many topical references to celebrities of 1939 (Minsky, Sophie Tucker, Tallulah Bankhead, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt) not all of whom still ring any bells for most t…
Rob Nagle (who created the role in the Los Angeles production) plays "compassionate conservative" North Carolina Senator Charles Whitmore who is up for reelection in a statistical dead heat …
Don't blame singer Jo Lampert who gives a passionate performance as the Maid of Orleans. Unfortunately, she hasn't been given anything very interesting to sing in this mostly sung-through mu…
Bated Breath Theatre Company specializes in original works inspired by and in partnership with museum collections and exhibitions. However, this show about the fate of the "Haddie Weisenberg…
