1,126 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
Jerry Mayer's "2 Across" will remind of a great many other romantic comedies but in the hands of Andrea McArdle and Kip Gilman, it is a charming light-hearted evening in the theater. At leas…
Although this is the eighth show minimalist director Ivo van Hove has directed for New York Theatre Workshop, one would be hard put to recognize it as his. The production uses Tal Yarden's a…
Belgian"born director Ivo van Hove has brought his London Young Vic revival of Arthur Miller's" A View from the Bridge" to Broadway in a production so stripped down to its essentials that it…
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While C.S. Lewis' famous theological allegory, "The Great Divorce," is written as a series of conversations, you might not expect that it would …
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"Gigantic," the new feel-good musical, is a dynamic up-to-date show about teenagers at a summer weight-loss camp. Previously seen as Fat Camp in…
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The new musical is similar to Sater's "Spring Awakening" in that it takes a group of people in a specific historic time and place (here New York…
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The legendary stage actress Kathleen Chalfant is appearing in her second one-woman show, a follow-up to her "Mrs. Dalloway" in The Party, from t…
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Pendleton has made some strange directorial choices. Characters appear on stage and stand silently long before their entrances. This is distract…
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The great mid-20th century American poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell were friends from 1947 until his sudden death 30 years later. As th…
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Metropolitan Playhouse has done itself proud with its revival of the rarely seen "Alison's House." Alex Roe's splendid production with its accom…
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Aside from the obvious theme of morality in politics, the play also deals devastatingly with issues of privacy in public life and in the informa…
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The best role in the story is that of sociopath, deranged Annie Wilkes. Metcalf runs the gamut of emotions from bliss to murderous rage and back…
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In this centennial of the birth of jazz great Billie Holiday, The New York Pops November concert was devoted to Harlem Renaissance ladies like E…
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The title refers to three generations of women whose lives have been derailed by early pregnancies. When the play begins, we are in the modest h…
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Handled as stand-up comedy, Story tells us that he did not at first accept Dr. Gray's theories until he heard one of his lectures, and then he b…
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For the first half of Stephen Karam's "The Humans," the Blake family Thanksgiving seems to be nothing but a banal seasonal gathering. And then s…
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Kate Baldwin (John & Jen, Giant, Big Fish, Finian's Rainbow) as self-absorbed country western star Tammy Tripp gives a big bravura performa…
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Roundabout Theatre Company has commissioned yet another new stage adaptation from British playwright Helen Edmondson, whose previous plays also …
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New Worlds Theatre Project's mission is to present English language translations of Yiddish plays as comparable to their contemporaries Chekhov …
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Twenty-two years after writing "First Lady Suite," four linked musicals about Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Truman, Mamie Eisenhower, Jacqueline Bouvi…
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"Perfect Arrangement," Topher Payne's first play to reach New York, is a well-crafted and engrossing play with much to say and has been magnific…
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The surviving original creators, book writer Sherman Yellen and lyricist Sheldon Harnick, have written a new streamlined version of the show now…
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Initially based on Plautus' Roman comedy, "Amphitryon," "Out of This World" is an uneasy mix of 1950's slang and idiom, and classic Greek themes…
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Havergal's adaptation is unusual in that it uses four male actors to play 25 roles including the central role of Aunt Augusta, with all the acto…
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Robert O'Hara's "Barbecue" may seem like a series of sleights of hand, but as a satirist of American culture, the playwright has a good deal to …
