1,126 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
Stylish and stylized, the stage design includes Es Devlin's white box of a set which transforms instantaneously into apartments, offices, restaurants, discos, a health club, a locker room, a…
On the ferry, audience members listen to a previously downloaded soundscape which includes a voice-over by Katie (played by Emma Meltzer) who has always seen ghosts and ends up investigating…
The problem with the new show with a libretto by first timers Claudia Shear and Tim Federle now at the Broadhurst Theatre is that it is all so bland - which is not true of the novel which ha…
Staged by director/choreographer Doug Varone, "Dido and Aeneas" was amusingly presented in modern dress with Varone's dancers playing the ensemble in both operas and pantomiming unseen props…
Red Bull Theater which has specialized in Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies has moved on to the 18th century with Marc Vietor's exquisite and stylish revival of "The School for Scandal," Ri…
Shanahan's adaptation has a great many delicious one-liners and double-entendres ("I don't go out for mutton when I can have filet mignon at home;" "Keep referring to me as a plate of food a…
While many of the scenes are right on target, others seem too metaphoric and anarchic to make much impression, while others take on too many targets to make their point. The best ones deal w…
You might wonder why Morag, Fiona's mother, in Sharman Macdonald's groundbreaking Scottish play, "When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout," is so repressive about sex. What the program …
The Royal Shakespeare Company's "King and Country: Shakespeare's Great Cycle of Kings" is a magnificent achievement and a fitting tribute in this 400th anniversary of the bard's death. Not o…
Van Hove sets his version in a modern classroom. When the curtain goes up we first see the girls who will later accuse various people in Salem, Massachusetts, of having bewitched them, seate…
Florian Zeller is the most famous French playwright you probably never heard of. He won France's highest theatrical honor, the Moliere Award, in 2011 for his play, "The Mother," and the Moli…
The problem with the staging begins from the outset. Daniels' Ray, tense and rigid, pushes demanding, triumphant Una into a corporate break room. He is upset to see her, and she is all confi…
Tarell Alvin McCraney's "Head of Passes" is an advance over his earlier work seen in New York ("The Brother/Sister Plays," "Wig Out," "Choir Boy") in its attempt to take on bigger themes and…
"The Effect" investigates the emotional, physical and ethical effects of drug testing, certainly a hot button issue in our time when we have come to expect a pill to solve all of our problem…
"Wonderful Town" is one of those musical comedies which seem to get better as they age due in this case to the classic quality of the Bernstein/ Comden & Green score and the witty book …
Thomas Kail (one of the geniuses behind Hamilton) has staged the world premiere of Sarah Burgess' riveting "Dry Powder" in as cool a fashion as Rachel Hauck's cobalt blue set with its cubes …
Posner has turned Chekhov's four-act play into two-part meta-theater: not only do the actors acknowledge the audience and solicit our participation, but they each have a monologue addressed …
In the hands of someone other than Timothy Olyphant, Strings McCabe might be a self-pitying monster too extreme to take seriously. However, this brilliantly accomplished actor has just the r…
The authors of "Straight" would have you believe that in 2016 26-year-old straight- acting investment banker Ben, living in Boston where same sex marriages have been legal for the last eight…
The staging is unusual in that no punches are thrown. When the actors are supposed to be delivering their blows, they stamp their feet which is actually more sinister and startling. The cast…
Directed by the author, "Wolf in the River" is an environmental production as the audience is invited to sit in folding chairs around a mound of earth with forlorn flowers, garbage and debri…
One problem with reviving musicals from the pre-Sondheim era is that they were often created around the talent of a big, unique star like Ethel Merman, Bob Hope, Mary Martin, Al Jolson, Fann…
"Southern Comfort" is an ambitious and admirable attempt to depict a community that till now has been left off of our stages. Though the material at times seems tamer that the content would …
"Hungry" is both an occasional play (written for this moment in time) and a chamber play. Not much happens but a great deal is implied. It will not please all theatergoers. However, it will …
The play is made up of a series of six confrontations in which the dialogue is delivered like bullets flying back and forth. While the story is engrossing, the individual conversations all g…
