1,091 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
Having had a success with Of Thee I Sing in 2017, MasterVoices had chosen to stage the sequel with an equally starry cast made up of most of the singers from the previous show in the same ro…
As produced by Bedlam in association with The Nora, Arthur Miller's 1953 tragedy, "The Crucible," based on the Salem Witch Trials proves to be both riveting and relevant all over again. In t…
Alan Lightman's 1992 internationally best-selling novel "Einstein's Dreams" would seem like an unlikely choice for stage adaptation as the original book is made up of 30 variations on theori…
"Truffles: Music! Mushrooms! Murder!!!" is a dinner theater musical mystery set in the very restaurant (The Secret Room) where the audience is having dinner. This return engagement of the lo…
"Slava's Snowshow" is a unique experience. It is clowning of a sophisticated sort with its wordless skits which takes it beyond language. Its set pieces are outrageous enough to transcend an…
Produced by Transport Group in association with The Public Theater and directed with precision, clarity and simplicity by Transport Group's artistic director Jack Cummings III, this story of…
There have been many adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth but none of them probably as entertaining as the new musical "Scotland, PA." Presented in the cartoon style of "Little Shop of Horror…
Richard Nelson's latest play, "The Michaels" (subtitled a "Conversation During Difficult Times") is a thing of beauty. Low-key like his "Apple Family" quartet and his "The Gabriels" trilogy,…
As directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel, the play is fast-paced and engrossing and the smell of garlic coming from the stage convinces us that real cooking is going on. The completely working …
Plays about lives of quiet desperation are difficult to pull off because you run the risk of boring the audience. Liza Birkenmeier's "Dr. Ride's American Beach House" has all the elements of…
Kathleen Chalfant adds another feather to her cap as Emily Dickinson's posthumous editor Mabel Loomis Todd in the world premiere of Rebecca Gilman's new one-woman play, "A Woman of the World…
"The Lightning Thief - The Percy Jackson Musical" settles down a bit more in the second act and becomes more engrossing but the damage has been done. The actors in the first act all seem to …
While the original production had a great many one-of-a-kind stars supporting Merman, one of the distinctions of the York production is its cast: Montel has been able to obtain the services …
There has been a recent trend to perform Shakespeare as minimally as possible and with as few actors as possible. However, the question arises what is gained? When the doubling of roles prov…
Last seen in New York in 2017, Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen has brought a newish work, "to come (extended)" to NYU Skirball Center. To come (extended) is actually a reworking an…
Tracy Letts' latest play to reach New York via the Chicago Steppenwolf production is the comedy drama, "Linda Vista," in which a 50-year-old white man in San Diego going through a messy divo…
The performances as well as the dialogue are cool and unemotional as you might expect from four professionals used to doing their jobs, until about three quarters of the way through when Win…
As part of its Fall 2019 Musicals in Mufti Cole Porter Series, The York Theatre Company has smartly revived this 1965 Ben Bagley - Cole Porter revue not seen in New York in 54 years. Pamela …
The problem with Vaynberg's play, now being given its Off Broadway premiere, in which she plays the lead female role, is that it has so many interlocking plots that it can give you a headach…
What is evident is that Zeller writes tremendous roles for actors. Frank Langella won the Tony Award back in 2016 for the title role of "The Father," and "The Height of the Storm" may well w…
Despite the fine writing and acting, these two plays do not stand alone: we are given no backstory to understand the context for these relationships in the longer saga; both plays dealing wi…
When the Gingold Theatrical Group's revival of Bernard Shaw's epic "Caesar and Cleopatra" begins, the characters are wearing white contemporary clothes and sitting on what looks like an exca…
Still delightful, mainly due to Porter's score, the book by Herbert Fields (who went on to write six more Porter shows) has its charms with its snappy Jazz Age dialogue which makes fun of th…
Legendary director Peter Brook has always investigated the big questions. In recent years his productions have become more intimate and the questions bigger. In "Why?", written and directed …
Cusi Cram's "Novenas for a Lost Hospital" (with dramaturgy by Guy Lancaster) presented by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is an unusual site-specific theatrical event that pays tribute to th…
