1,126 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
Thompson's direction is taut, nuanced and compelling and she found the ensemble to not only make their characters entirely distinct but to make us feel these women have lived together for ye…
Imani's production of 'Walk Hard" for Metropolitan Playhouse is an exciting piece of theater from an eye-opening rediscovery. Historically, it comes nine years after Clifford Odets' 'Golden …
The musical known for its "Let's put on a show!" plot has a great deal more going for it than one might expect. First off, it has one of the greatest scores ever written for a Broadway music…
The inspiration for the play began when poet and playwright Dan heard the Fresh Air interview. Paul was already famous as the photographer who took the now iconic 1993 picture of U.S. Staff …
The most colorful character in more ways that one is Uncle Jackie (Cantone) who lives upstairs. A closeted gay man in a society that doesn't accept him, he has become an angry, self-loathing…
Nunn's adaptation rearranges some of the scenes and adds material from a prose version of the work by George Wilkins, believed to be Shakespeare's collaborator. Using music, song, dancing, j…
Todd Rosenthal's remarkably atmospheric and evocative setting is waiting for the audience when they come into the theater: a huge expanse of a corrugated ice flow in Northern Minnesota in fo…
The play seems to be saying that life is full of suffering but love will conquer all, not a very new or profound message. One flashback (Violet and Daniel's first date) is replayed at least …
Under the umbrella title "Tennessee Williams 1982" (the year of both play's composition the year as well as that of playwright's death), The Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company is presenting…
The satire begins early: it turns out that although the department likes having Brian doing his research proving that whites are genetically racist, they are not happy with his conclusions. …
Television and film actor Timothée Chalamet (Showtime's "Homeland" and Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar") makes an impressive New York stage debut as the play's young protagonist. The role…
The forest setting by Ortiz seems to envelop the audience as does the sound design which is created by the actors in tandem with violinist Naomi Florin who plays Edward W. Hardy's melancholy…
Do not expect an exact reproduction of the original which after four revivals is probably to the good. With the consent of lyricist Sheldon Harnick, the only surviving creator, Sher has adde…
At the top of the show Cariou tells us that he made his Broadway debut in the Stratford Connecticut Shakespeare Festival's transfer of "Henry V" in 1969 and six months later in the spring of…
Schwend's dialogue is realistic, believable, and true to life, as are the characters. As a play, however, it is a bit of a downer as we watch Amber become wearier without any relief in sight…
Nevertheless, Wills' production is continually taking us by surprise both by his casting and his choices. His transgendered characters are played by transgendered actors. Moran's Wilder and …
So begins a remarkable comedy-drama of two very opposite teenagers who shouldn't have met and wouldn't have if Anthony had not chosen the reclusive, mysterious Caroline for his partner. The …
Both teenagers are desperate for our approval and understanding of their lives and what they did, unlike the tabloids which have apparently had headlines branding them as monsters. Listening…
While Frayn's roles are juicy parodies of very specific kinds of people, for the laughs to roll in one on top of the other, the play must be performed fast enough that we don't have time to …
A Dream of Red Pavilions is set in 18th century China during the reign of Emperor Qianlong. The framing story which gives the plot its mythic quality involves a stone and a flower that are r…
Director Lordi-Kirkham has unaccountable staged the play as though it were a radio play or a reading, making it more talky and static than it needs to be. While the text is faithful to the R…
Ross DeGraw as Joseph Stalin and Brian J. Carter as Mikhail Bulgakov in a scene from John Hodge's "Collaborators" (Photo credit: Michael Abrams) Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief Although satiri…
The interpretations are also open to question. Although she should be demure before her sexual awakening, Sara Topham plays Beatrice as experienced and sophisticated which allows her nowhere…
Though the stage show does not have the imitable and irrepressible Jack Black, it does have rising stars Alex Brightman and Sierra Boggess who make the roles of hero Dewey Finn and Principal…
The cast includes beloved NYGASP favorites as well as some less familiar faces. Coloratura soprano Sarah Caldwell Smith's Mabel wins a justly earned ovation signing her aria, "Poor Wandering…
