1,126 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
On the one hand, it is a punch in the gut dramatizing the cold hard facts of disintegrating with this disease; on the other, the non-linear time scheme is difficult to follow, offering more …
Upton's version solves some problems and creates others. Updated to the 1990's, the play is no longer about life in Tsarist Russia but the post-Perestroika world of Glasnost. While the origi…
Never before seen on mainland U.S.A, the current show is an amalgam of the four existing shows ("P.F.C. Mary Brown;" "Hi, Yank!;" "About Face" and "OK, USA") of the six that were written. Di…
Set in The Afterlife, a crossroad between Heaven and Hell, the play presupposes a trial of Luther on the grounds of being guilty of "the unforgiveable sin." The prosecuting attorney is The D…
While Harms has a fine ear for dialogue, the play moves by revelation and incident. Consequently, it plays like a sophisticated soap opera as every scene brings a new wrinkle not previously …
In keeping with Sullivan having been hit over the head, the cast is clothed in a motley collection: a combination of late Victorian and Japanese styles. Some are in all Japanese, some in all…
Surprisingly, Eleanor Reissa's production for New Yiddish Rep has made some debatable choices which damage the power of the play. First of all and most obviously, although not a word has bee…
The real reason to see the new "Sweet Charity," its third major New York revival, is for Sutton Foster's bravura performance. Aside from nightclub singer Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes, Foste…
Green's dry delivery is in the Coward manner, crisp, almost spoken to the music, with impeccable diction. Shrubsole's accompaniment supports him without ever getting in the way. The most fam…
We knew it was a great novel, but who knew Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace," Part I, would make such an exciting and innovative electro pop-rock opera? Not that the epic novel isn't a fantastic…
Two ways to invigorate Shakespeare in our time is to either cast actors not identified with classical roles or to reset the play in some unfamiliar setting. Sam Gold's magnificent production…
Seven musicians of Egypt's Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra have been sent to Israel to open the new Arab cultural center at Petah Tivah. Due to a mix up at the border, they end up in …
Rockwell who also choreographed has turned each of the songs into an extravagant, go-for-broke production number. Best are Wardell's "Noel's Lament" in which he reveals he wants to be Moniqu…
"This Day Forward" shows much tighter control than many of Nicky Silver's early anarchic plays. However, aside from offering a few wonderful characters in Malka and the older Irene, the play…
The framework is a fictional fiftieth anniversary party given in a New York art gallery by collaborating media/visual/performing artists Malik "Mk Ultra" (Christopher Livingston) and Jimmy "…
It isn't until the second act of Dan Gordon's stage adaptation of "Terms of Endearment," based on both the Larry McMurtry novel as well as the Academy Award-winning screenplay by James L. Br…
Moore's adaptation successfully uses the small, recently renovated stage of the Irish Repertory Theatre so that even with 13 actors the performance area always looks populated with the peopl…
Told in real time from five to seven PM on Election Day, November 8, 2016, not much happens in the play but as the Gabriel women talk, they reveal their hopes, their fears, their desires and…
Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's "The Front Page" remains the quintessential comedy about the tabloid newspaper racket. Jack O'Brien's production plays it safe while a more brazen and outra…
"Sweat," which won the 2016 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, is reputed inspired by interviews conducted by playwright Nottage and director Kate Whoriskey in Reading, Pennsylvania, named the poo…
Not only does Nguyen have a unique sensibility and style, but the story is told entirely from the Vietnamese-American point of view, one not often seen on our stages. We hear the Americans a…
Whether you see one or both of Gurney's "Two Class Acts," these are provocative plays of ideas on topics of the day. The playwright continues to demonstrate that he has a wise and discerning…
"Hoi Polloi" was Coward's tribute to the London working class that was trying to get back on its feet after the devastation of World War II. Partly out of his element and partly as Coward ne…
Introducing what he dubbed a pair of "Comedies of Crime," NYGASP's artistic director Albert Bergeret offered what he said was a first of a new series for the company: intimate performances o…
In his Broadway productions, David Leveaux has often used a strong directorial concept such as his Chekhovian 'Fiddler on the Roof" and his interracial "Romeo and Juliet" which did not work …
