1,091 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
Her nine years on SNL would seem excellent preparation for "Search" which requires her to portray ten different characters alternately. However, although Strong has tremendous stage presence…
Not only is this a puppet show but it is also an extended concert. This year's vocalists are Valois Mickens, of West African, Celtic, and Native American origin, Â and Katarina Vizina, a t…
David Lindsay-Abaire's early plays ("Fuddy Meers," "Kimberly Akimbo" and "Wonder of the World") were all whimsical or at least otherworldly. He has gone on to create musicals based on previo…
"Flying Over Sunset," Pulitzer Prize-winning bookwriter/director James Lapine's new original show, is a "What If?" musical: using historical facts that are known about writer and philosopher…
This theatrical genius, responsible for the Tony Award winning plays "War Horse," "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" and the most recent revival of "Angels in America," knew…
Although Candace Bushnell's one-woman show, "Is There Still Sex in the City?," shares the same name with her 2019 novel/self-help book, the stage show now at the Darryl Roth Theatre is her a…
It appears that the later play was modeled on the earlier one though it may not have been noticed back in 1997 when "Sympathetic Magic" had its New York premiere. Both plays deal with discov…
As the manager of the restaurant, Aduba gives one of those big performances which are larger than life, but we have all met that type of people. She batters, insults, cajoles, berates her st…
Playwright John Patrick Shanley has said in interviews that his latest play "Candlelight" is a new departure for him. Described as "A Nuyorican comic romantic tragedy covered with magic and …
Directed by playwright Mark Shanahan, A Sherlock Carol offers six actors playing 23 roles in this entertaining new adaptation. In the iconic role of Sherlock Holmes with so much history behi…
All of us are probably aware of the problems of polluted water in Flint, Michigan, owing to civic neglect. However, it might shock you to know that it is still going on. Erika Dickerson-Desp…
The Red Bull Theater production of Ben Jonson's "The Alchemist" will most likely introduce a new generation to this classic Jacobean comedy in a form that most will be able to follow due to …
If Alice Childress' 1955 Off Broadway hit, "Trouble in Mind," had transferred to Broadway in 1957 as it was scheduled to do, it would have been the first play by a Black playwright to reach …
As always in a John Doyle presentation, the production is professional, polished and accomplished. This time around he has not made changes to the script or the score except to include the c…
The writers seem afraid to state what the story is all about, the word gay being mentioned exactly once. At two hours and 15 minutes including one intermission, today's audience is way ahead…
Dan Wackerman's revival for The Peccadillo Theater Company and Woodie King, Jr.'s New Federal Theatre has an equally starry cast some of whom have not appeared on New York stages for quite a…
In a departure for him, the three actresses play all of the characters, both female and male, and are listed in the program simply as 1, 2 and 3. While the play feels undramatic and has no h…
Will Eno's wry, contemporary 'Gnit" solves the problem of attempting to stage Ibsen's unwieldy, five-hour verse play "Peer Gynt." The play given its world premiere at the Humana Festival of …
The question arises who is the intended audience. The 60-minute show is too slow for young children and too repetitious for adults. Possibly this is meant for the nostalgia crowd of which th…
D.W. Gregory's docudrama "Radium Girls" being given its New York premiere after a run in New Jersey over 20 years ago attempts to put the story and subsequent lawsuits on stage. Part of the …
George Bernard Shaw's once-banned problem comedy due to its controversial subject matter concerning prostitution, "Mrs. Warren's Profession" has been given a stylish and elegant revival by t…
This mashup proves to be both too convoluted and too long at two hours and 20 minutes. Beane has, however, given the play a top flight send off with a starry cast of some of the most distinc…
Keenan Scott II's engrossing Broadway debut play, Thought of a Colored Man, appears to be a masculine version of Ntozake Shange's 1976 "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the…
Douglas Lyons' new comedy, "Chicken & Biscuits" introduces us to the dysfunctional Jenkins/Mabry clan at the funeral of its patriarch Bernard, the former pastor of his New Haven church. …
Although the characters never meet in person, they communicate mostly through letters that are spoken by the actors directly to the audience, and then halfway through the play, in texting wh…
