1,091 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
As the most respected player in baseball, Williams has a quiet dignity and charm as a man of few words and few outward motions. While his wry remarks do not often come through as humor, he i…
The musical gets a great deal of mileage out of its humor particular in its parody of recognizable tropes. "Penelope, Or How The Odyssey Was Really Written" is an entertaining musical comedy…
On one level, "Gong Lum's Legacy" is revealing in that it demonstrates Southern racism against not only African Americans but also Chinese immigrants who were given the same treatment. On an…
Given one hour to decide and vote, the union committee must come to a decision in real time. On one level the play is very much like Reginald Rose's "12 Angry Men" in which a group of dispar…
Poet and Yale professor Rankine's play makes use of a narrator/interviewer as her stand-in played by April Matthis. According to program notes by Rankine herself, "The text spoken by white p…
While Gabriel Jason Dean's "Heartland" is an enlightening play about Afghan culture mentioning the classic poet Rumi and the contemporary novelist Atiq Rahimi, some of it will still be opaqu…
As a play about neuroscience, Sam Chanse's "what you are now" needs a great deal more data and information. As a play about the plight of Cambodian refugees, what are you now needs to be cle…
Although when MasterVoices chose the third of the four Stephen Sondheim/Arthur Laurents collaborations, "Anyone Can Whistle," as part of their 80th season at Carnegie Hall, they had no way o…
C. Julian Jiménez's "Bruise & Thorn" is not for everyone. Older theatergoers may be put off by both the raw language and street slang that they will not know. However, if you want to kn…
Page 73's world premiere of John J. Caswell, Jr.'s "Man Cave" is an exciting, riveting supernatural horror story. While at times it seems overwrought and overstuffed with too many issues, Ta…
The world premiere of Peter Gil-Sheridan's "This Space Between Us" gives itself away in its title: it is about a dysfunctional family that does nothing but argue when they get together. Jona…
Aleshea Harris' third New York stage play following her form-bending "Is God Is" and "What to Send Up When It Goes Down" is epic in all senses of the word: it includes poetry, dance, incanta…
The production is a combination of film and theater techniques which keep reminding us that we are watching a dramatization: realistic sets (designed by Jacquelyn Scott) give way to scenes i…
You may have never thought about it before but you are defined by your language. Your identity is shaped by the words you have and the words you don't. You can say certain things in one lang…
The Mint Theater Company which gave the first New York production of "The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd," Lawrence's best play and one of the great British tragedies of modern drama, has revived …
Because of changing social mores, some Broadway musicals are assumed to make audiences uncomfortable today. Take for example Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Carousel" whose protagonist is a wife-…
"Black No More," the new musical inspired by George S. Schuyler's 1931 Afrofuturist novel, is the most exciting and inventive new show to be seen so far this season in New York though it is …
Arin Arbus, resident director at Theatre for a New Audience, staging her tenth classic for them took a great risk with her new production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice: not only pu…
Hansol Jung's "Wolf Play" is a fantasy on several levels but it is also rather confusing in its details. Inspired by the true case of an Asian adoptee who was "re-homed" on the Internet when…
The new opera, "Intimate Apparel" is a very impressive, accessible work. If it has a fault, it is completely humorless but then the original play did not include comic relief either. Unlike …
Joshua Harmon's latest play, the dense, untidy, brilliant and timely Prayer for the French Republic, is his most ambitious, epical play covering five generations of one French Jewish family …
Warning: "Shhhh," a world premiere commissioned by Atlantic Theater Company from Clare Barron, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winner for "Dance Nation," may just be the most visceral play you w…
While Gordon has said in interviews that his model for the music was Puccini, in fact, the atonal orchestral score sounds more like operas by Gian Carlo Menotti, Carlisle Floyd and Dominick …
The songs which are mainly sung by Alex Boniello (usually with a guitar) and Molly Hager as the ghostly narrators are folk ballads which though lovely sound like a continuation of the same s…
"Ectoplasm" counts among its themes and topics: poetry, women's rights, prostitution, women's suffrage, love, death, the paranormal, the supernatural, fraudulent mediums " and the love that …
