1,091 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
While Marshall Pailet's direction is breezy and fastpaced, the dialogue has too many Borscht belt jokes ("Take my Grandma, for instance. No really take her-," Camp Rosenblatt, "As my Grandma…
Bedlam's 2014 production of "Sense and Sensibility," adapted by Kate Hamil from the novel by Jane Austen, and directed by Eric Tucker, set the bar so high for cleverness, originality and wit…
Martyna Majok writes powerfully and brilliantly about marginalized people, particularly undocumented immigrants living in Northern New Jersey, as in "Ironbound" and her 2018 Pulitzer Prize-w…
Holmes' songs include clever lyrics particularly "Facebook," "I Can Be That Guy" and "Beautiful Girl in the Front Row." His expert playing on the keyboard allows him to have duets with himse…
Performed by a cast of 15 singers and enacted in pantomime by numerous local volunteers all dressed in swimwear, Sun & Sea is a typical day at the beach in which we hear the thoughts of …
The new play, ironically, does not take place in Rhinebeck, New York, like the preceeding 11 plays but as explained in its subtitle it concerns "Conversations in Angers, France," the home of…
As his mother Bete (pronounced Bet"chi), Soria is bigger than life without a great deal of assistance from props, costuming or make-up. When he enters carrying an offering to the stage which…
Written and directed by White who is the Obie and Lily Award winning director of "Our Dear Dead Drug Lord" (WP Theater) and "What to Send Up When It Goes Down" (Public Theater, BAM Fisher an…
The problem with the show now at The Jerry Orbach Theater is director Tim Drucker's frenetic, over-the-top staging and the artificially broad presentational style of the acting, similar to -…
Early in the play, songs are sung by various members of the cast including the anachronistic "The House of the Rising Sun," (sung twice) set in New Orleans in the twentieth century. The cast…
Aside from the unevenness of the acting, Drance's production has no consistent tone, shifting from comedy to drama to tragedy and back again. Not all of his interesting ideas are carried thr…
Read by unseen British stage star Juliet Stevenson, "Blindness" is as timely as Albert Camus' "The Plague" with its story of an epidemic which affects first a community, then a city and fina…
"Lilies" is an attempt at old-fashioned theater or to couch a modern story in old-fashioned trappings. The problem with the play for modern audiences may be stated in its subtitle, "The Revi…
While the chronology is somewhat convoluted as the text occasionally skips around grouping some similar events (such as two trips to New York City), if you follow along, the script depicts W…
Directed by the author, "Two Sisters and a Piano" reveals its roots as a radio play from its reliance on poetry and language: this is a cat-and-mouse game in which the participants use words…
Set in a dark time, "Girl from the North Country" creates a community on stage as do the best plays and musicals. Its tale of lost souls attempting to keep their heads above water is univers…
For "Coal Country," an investigation into the April 5, 2010 West Virginia disaster at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch coal mine which killed 29 men, authors Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen ba…
Although director/choreographer Kathleen Marshall has given the Transport Group production staged at The Abroms Arts Center a rousing production, the major problem still exists with the stor…
The inspiration for "About Love" is Ivan Turgenev's "First Love," one of the greatest of all novellas. Subtitled "a play with songs and music," that is exactly what it is: a dramatic present…
Vivian Neuwirth's "Mr. Toole" is a fitting tribute to a charismatic teacher and a brilliant author. However, the play, in the form it currently is in, seems to have been shoehorned into a sh…
Mixing fiction and fact, new Signature Theatre Residency playwright Lauren Yee's "Cambodian Rock Band" is an engrossing, entertaining and appalling  investigation into the Khmer Rouge's g…
Following its opening production of Cy Coleman's equally rarely seen "Seesaw," J2 Spotlight Musical Theater Company is presenting a fully staged version of "No Strings" as the second product…
MCC Theater's New York premiere of C.A. Johnson's new play "All the Natalie Portmans" is a lovely work which resembles other such modern coming of age plays from Carson McCullers' "The Membe…
Pearl Cleage's "Blues for an Alabama Sky" gets a belated New York premiere courtesy of Keen Company in its 20th season. Although seen in many regional theaters since its 1995 premiere at the…
As the centerpiece of its spring season, Classic Stage Company is presenting a repertory of adaptations of two legendary Gothic horror stories: Bram Stoker's "Dracula" and Mary Shelley's "Fr…
