1,091 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
While the show approximates a magic show, it also is a lecture demonstration. However, if you are hoping to hear how the tricks are accomplished you will be disappointed. Cuiffo who has a ch…
Scheduled to run only until July 1, "Lizard Boy" deserves a longer life as one of the most satisfying musical theater offerings to be seen currently in New York. While the message of toleran…
Lucas' script remains faithful to Miller's teleplay (with the excision of Joe's delirium tremens in the psycho ward or his second hospitalization) and much of the dialogue is actually Miller…
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' "The Comeuppance," the culmination of his decade as a Premiere Resident playwright at Signature Theatre, does for the millennials what "The Big Chill" did for the Bab…
The problem with the play is that it has a one joke plot, simply what will happen when Maurice appears " if he does. The play runs out of steam very early on. However, if the drunken scene i…
The little OPERA theatre of ny has become known for its adventurous programing of rarely seen and heard operas in English including the New York premieres of Benjamin Britten's opera for tel…
Whether you are a basketball fan or not, Rajiv Joseph's "King James" is an intriguing depiction of an unlikely friendship over 12 years. Under Kenny Leon's polished direction, Glenn Davis an…
The six-member cast creates a believable ensemble though their roles are not all clearly defined. While the play reveals much about the Haitian community living in Brooklyn, as 'Bernarda's D…
The world premiere of Emma Sheanshang's "The Fears" is a hilarious and poignant satire on self-help groups and the sort of people who take their emotional temperature all day long " literall…
As directed by the astute Josh Sharp, Kayne begins his show as a stand-up act, but warns us "This is a comedy show. BUT it is also sad. There will be long stretches where you will not be lau…
All of this is told by Baer in Twain's humorous and inimitable style filled with anecdotes both true and untrue. As we are told from the author himself, "I have never been a man to allow the…
"New York, New York" is a big, jazzy show in the style of golden age musicals we have not seen for a while. While it removes the abusive relationship between Jimmy and Francine from the film…
However, both every scene as written by Maldonado and directed by Theatre East's artistic director Judson Jones is staged as though it were the climax. It is one thing to enact a play up to …
MasterVoices concluded its 2022-23 season with a lovely concert staging performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's rarely seen comic opera "Iolanthe (or The Peer and the Peri)" staged and conduc…
Sean Hayes, up till now best known for his Emmy Award-winning performance as Jack McFarland on "Will and Grace," gives a titanic performance as humorist, raconteur and pianist Oscar Levant o…
Directors Noah Brody and Emily Young, both of the Fiasco Theater, have neatly trimmed the dialogue and some of the minor characters so that the play comes in at two hours and 15 minutes. How…
Larissa Fasthorse's "The Thanksgiving Play" gives a good tweaking to those who are so hung up on political correctness that they dare not make a decision. On the other hand, the play reminds…
While the playlets seem too slight to have much dramatic weight as they are mainly about one minute long, they do have a cumulative effect summing up a year that was like no other in recent …
The latest collaboration by composer lyricist Albert M. Tapper and bookwriter Tony Sportiello, "On the Right Track," proves to be a charming chamber musical for three performers playing seve…
Unfortunately, though Sorkin may have made this "Camelot" more politically correct, scientifically accurate and less supernatural, it is much less entertaining and magical than earlier produ…
Gunderson uses two actors to play Emilie and writer Voltaire who was her mentor, companion and lover, and then three actors to play everyone else, from Emilie's mother, husband and daughter,…
Mary Elizabeth Hamilton's Smart has an interesting premise but does not carry out its goal turning quickly into a domestic drama and later a bittersweet love story. The two acts seem to be t…
"Life of Pi" is a unique theatrical experience with its animal puppetry, depiction of days on the ocean, and bringing to life an Indian city, circa 1977. It tells a fantastical story with br…
Although the women grow up and change over the 26 years we see them, Heifner's book tends to stay away from politics and the women's movement other than mentioning markers like Kennedy, Nixo…
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of its original film release, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks has turned "The Harder They Come," the cult Jamaican film that starred later…
