Lost Girls
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief 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…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief 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…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief 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…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief 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…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief Kate Baldwin (John & Jen, Giant, Big Fish, Finian's Rainbow) as self-absorbed country western star Tammy Tripp gives a big bravura performa…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief Roundabout Theatre Company has commissioned yet another new stage adaptation from British playwright Helen Edmondson, whose previous plays also …
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief New Worlds Theatre Project's mission is to present English language translations of Yiddish plays as comparable to their contemporaries Chekhov …
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief Twenty-two years after writing "First Lady Suite," four linked musicals about Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Truman, Mamie Eisenhower, Jacqueline Bouvi…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief "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…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief The surviving original creators, book writer Sherman Yellen and lyricist Sheldon Harnick, have written a new streamlined version of the show now…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief 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…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief 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…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief 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 …
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief What is most remarkable about Caryl Churchill's time traveling comedy "Cloud Nine" is that this prescient play about sexual politics and repress…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief From the evidence of Colgan's Musicals Tonight! production, "Oh, Kay!" not only still works in the original but has a glorious score including s…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief With a cast led by downtown icons Joey Arias and Julie Atlas Muz, "Sisters' Follies" includes life size puppets, flying ghosts, music and dance,…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief Although Arthur Miller grew up in a Jewish family, none of his characters with the exception of the antique dealer in The Price are explicitly J…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief The New York Pops' 33rd season opened with a joyful tribute to one of the legendary songwriting teams of Broadway. Entitled "My Favorite Things:…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief The production includes the Broadway debuts of British screen and television stars Clive Owen and Kelly Reilly, and a return of British stage st…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief Sunny Knable's music is romantic and lilting. He has called his style a cross between Stephen Sondheim and Benjamin Britten. In this he does him…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief Jean Webster's classic epistolary novel of the coming of age of a college age girl at the beginning of the twentieth century, "Daddy Long Legs,"…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief If this story sounds familiar, it is the plot of the classic thirties screwball comedy "The Awful Truth" which starred Cary Grant and Irene Dunn…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief The annual "The Pumpkin Pie Show" is back for its 17th year. Performed with no sets and no costumes, it has been described as "bedtime stories f…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief If you thought Bedlam's artistic director Eric Tucker had created physical productions for his acclaimed acting troupe in the past, think again.…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief When American born Londoner Harold Chapin was killed in W.W. I in 1915, he was a highly regarded actor, stage manager and playwright, although n…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief Could Dennis Richard's new play "Radio Mystery 1949" be inspired by the Mad Bomber George Metesky who terrorized New York in the 1940's and 1950…