1,091 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
Tom Stoppard's "Leopoldstadt" is a powerful achievement, a history of our time as well as a cautionary tale. In depicting Jewish life in Vienna from 1899 - 1955, It also reveals a way of lif…
Actor/writer/director Douglas McGrath is a charming storyteller and his one-man show "Everything's Fine" is a total delight. He tells the entertaining and poignant story of his eventful 14th…
"Baldwin & Buckley at Cambridge" should stir up controversy as their 1965 topic is still relevant. Such a debate today would have a great deal more ammunition than either of these men ha…
Neith Boyce's "The Sea Lady," a Broadway-bound play in 1935, only now having its world premiere at Metropolitan Playhouse is an attempt at a Shavian play of ideas. Based on a 1901 novel by s…
On what is either a shoestring budget or a conscious effort to strip Henry James' novel down to its essentials, Randy Sharp's new adaptation of "Washington Square" is both exciting theater a…
There are two truisms in life in addition to the one about death and taxes: it takes all kinds of people to make a world and something will get everyone in the end. The world premiere of Gra…
"Weightless" is an engaging little indie rock musical, little in the sense that it has only three characters plus a narrator and runs only 75 minutes of playing time. The show features the B…
If you like your W.W. II history unadulterated, you may object to a love story between a French teenage girl and a Nazi soldier even if they are inexperienced and innocent and unaware of wha…
Is it possible to be completely truthful in attempting to tell the life of a famous author in a biofilm? That is the premise of Argentinian novelist and playwright Romina Paula's "Fauna" now…
Although Alan Cumming is a charismatic performer, the distracting video design, the often overpowering music, and the often flashing lighting by Tim Lutkin, gets in the way of viewing the sh…
The finished score by Lehrman is 50% music he created based on themes by Blitzstein: pieces of his unproduced 1932 opera "The Condemned" (an earlier work about Sacco and Vanzetti), a march, …
Mark Wilding's "Our Man in Santiago" is billed as a "raucous political farce" but it is neither loud and noisy nor hilariously funny. Inspired by Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 1974 article in Har…
Aside from his ability to create multiple characters with his voice and body language, Strathairn's physicality is remarkable in aging from a young man to a senior citizen before our eyes as…
"My Onliness," Robert Lyons' latest stage work, is a musical homage to Polish avant-garde playwright Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (active 1918-1934) but who resurfaced during the 1960's when …
A fresh antidote to the usual brassy, loud rock musicals of today, "Los Otros" slows down the tempo and the sound level with a story of the experiences of two people who learn to love, cope …
Public Works' musical adaptation of "As You Like It" is an enchanting evening of summer fun under the stars. Trimmed to a long one act, the story is accessible for both those who know the Sh…
'Hyprov" is a delightful and surprising evening as there is no telling how it will turn out. Will the Hyprovisers be good at their improvs? Will they stay in character? How will they deal wi…
"Titantique" is the most hilarious musical parody to play New York in many a year. Since international superstar Céline Dion only got to sing one song at the end of James Cameron's blockbus…
It is not until the last 15 minutes of Sophie McIntosh's new play, "macbitches," that a dramatic event takes place. Up until then the play is mostly the chit chat of acting majors talking ab…
Samantha Streich and Deijah Faulkner in a scene from "The Inconvenient Miracle: A Mysterious Birth Musical" at The Episcopal Actors Guild (Photo credit: Ahron R. Foster) Victor Gluck, Editor…
If you have ever seen a play by Aeschylus, you know how static and slow they are, made up entirely of monologues and choral odes with hardly any action. It was Sophocles and Euripides who ad…
Jake Shore's "Hit the Wall," though limited in its range, is very successful in its goals. It gives Adam Files and Alexandra Guerrero juicy roles as the aging mentor and the younger student …
While the play is rooted in its original 1955 period (its language, social mores, references, three-act form), this revival directed by Joe Rosario has attempted to place it in the present f…
The second problem is the performance of Amir Arison, star of nine seasons on NBC's "The Blacklist," and eight Off Broadway dramas, playing both "The Kite Runner"'s narrator and its protagon…
Patina Miller as The Witch in a scene from the New York City Center Encores! Production of "Into the Woods" at the St. James Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman for Murp…
