1,091 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
Now that The Public Theater's 2019 revival of the late Nzotake Shange's "for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf" has been critically acclaimed once again, Th…
Although J2 Spotlight's artistic director Robert W. Schneider who staged this show has given it a vigorous production and cast a delightful Gittel in Stephanie Israelson, he is unable to dis…
In making her professional stage debut courtesy of Page 73, Zora Howard has written a powerful kitchen sink drama in 'Stew," as much about making a literal stew as about the emotional stew t…
The Mint Theater Company has rediscovered and championed British actor/playwright Miles Malleson with Conflict and Yours Unfaithfully. Now they have combined two of his one acts adapted from…
Bookwriter Jonathan Marc Sherman has wisely kept the story in its period. However, his dialogue is almost word for word lifted from the screenplay which is rather old hat for those of us hav…
While Simon Stone's adaptation is engrossing for its surprising updates, it never captures the emotions, seeming more like a gimmick that a reworking of the Greek tragedy. With most of the a…
An author can be too close to his or her material so that the real story fails to be revealed. Inspired by his own family events, Buzz McLaughlin's Sister Calling My Name has a fascinating p…
The New York Pops' latest concert, Find Your Dream, was a glorious tribute to nostalgia. Not only was it an evening of the beloved songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein with selectionsfrom all 11…
Laura Linney is never one to avoid a challenge. When she last appeared at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre she was alternating in the roles of "Regina" and "Birdie" in the…
When a playwright adapts a famous, well-known story for the stage the problem becomes how to tell it in a new way that makes it seem unfamiliar and fresh. Otherwise, why bother retelling it …
On paper the concept should not work: scenes and characters have been cut, a Shakespeare sonnet has been added set to music, as well as a Greek song, and four characters originally written f…
It is not difficult to see what attracted Metropolitan Playhouse to Ardrey's drama: its message that one cannot shut one's self off from the problems of the world as the America First moveme…
Speaking alternately, the six women talk of food, traditions, love, family, beliefs, ethics, dreams, abuse and New Zealand men. They speak of their dreams of a future and a better life. The …
Dion Boucicault's "London Assurance" is still a witty and lively play after almost 180 years. With its farcical elements laid over a drawing room comedy plot, Charlotte Moore's adroit produc…
Leland Fowler, Jamyl Dobson and Edward Mawere in a scene from Donja R. Love's "one in two" in a world premiere production by The New Group at The Pershing Square Signature Center (Photo cred…
Samuel H. Levine, Kyle Soller and Andrew Burnap in a scene from Matthew Lopez's "The Inheritance" at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (Photo credit: Marc Brenner) Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief To…
A product of the tumultuous thirties whose work was banned by the Nazis even though he was not Jewish, Von Horváth was particularly interested in social criticism of the middle-class and …
Beloved television stars Harry Hamlin (L.A. Law) and Stefanie Powers (Hart to Hart) return to the New York stage in Joshua Ravetch's "One November Yankee" which they previously performed at …
Told in leisurely style, Greater Clements is about the decline (and possible fall) of the American dream. Hunter appears to be saying that this is a long-time coming and its roots go very de…
Alyssa May Gold, Rebecca Jimenez, Carmen Berkeley and Malika Samuel in a scene from Alexis Scheer's "Our Dear Dead Drug Lord" at the McGinn/Cazale Theater (Photo credit: Shira Friedman) Vict…
Tony Triano as Santa Claus in a scene from the Argyle Theatre production of Meredith Willson's "Miracle on 34th Street, The Musical" (Photo credit: Richard Termine) Victor Gluck, Editor-in-C…
Another way to look at the play is as the twelve stages of man and woman, going Shakespeare five more steps. Unlike Tracy Letts' Mary Page Marlowe, in which the heroine was played by a diffe…
Having won the 2014 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award for "I and You," this is the fourth production of a Lauren Gunderson play in New York since …
For those younger members of the audience who do not know Edmond Rostand's classic French play, "Cyrano de Bergerac," the new musical "Cyrano" presented by The New Group at the Darryl Roth T…
While MarÃa Irene Fornés'Â "Fefu and Her Friends" is considered a feminist statement, in performance the play seems not to be very revealing about women or their positions other than t…
