1,091 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
Co-presented by The Theater at the 14th Street Y, '…it's time…" explored the dynamics of a small group of five"excellent"performers whose existence appeared to be controlled by a large d…
The Flea Theater is honoring one of its co-founding members, playwright Mac Wellman, with a five play festival called "Perfect Catastrophes" which includes two world premieres and three revi…
If you are put off by the idea of women defining themselves based on the men in their lives, then Lois Robbins' one-woman play "L.O.V.E.R." is not for you. However, if you concede that there…
Cobb is titanic in this piece bringing his resonant voice and impressive physical presence to bear on the most famous classic role for a Black actor in the canon as well as his thoughts abou…
Making is U.S. debut 19 years after its Scottish premiere in an actual park, Douglas Maxwell's "Decky Does a Bronco" is a worthy addition to the dramatic literature of plays about childhood …
Hopkins had added selections from Lewis Carroll (references to the Jabberwock and "The White Knight's Song: The Aged Age Man," the poem which gives her the new title), Emily Dickinson ("I'm …
Poseidon Theatre Company's "The Cooping Theory 1969: Who Killed Edgar Allan Poe?," described as a "new immersive paranormal experience," is set at the RPM Underground which is more interesti…
Bess Wohl's new play, "Make Believe," is a fascinating study of how the traumas of childhood affect our adult lives, particularly the damage seen and unseen parents inflict on their offsprin…
Deborah Whitfield's 'Tech Support" offers a clever idea in order to review feminism in the past century. Unfortunately, her rather superficial approach misses a great many opportunities. The…
Jonathan Spector's "Eureka Day" now having its East Coast premiere at Walkerspace is a blisteringly satiric and provocative play torn right out of the headlines. Ostensibly about how one pro…
Described as a multimedia production, "Da Vinci & Michelangelo: The Titans Experience" is actually a lecture by art historian Mark Rodgers to slides of the masterpieces of these two geni…
Lenore Skomal's "The Exes" wants to revive the Broadway-style sex comedies of the 1950's and 60's, earlier called boulevard comedy. Unfortunately, not only is the formula passé but televisi…
William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night Dream" is perfect comedy for July or August and adding a meal is an even cleverer idea. Presented jointly by Food for Love Productions and Third Rail…
"Midsummer: A Banquet" is an auditory and oral treat, a light entertainment for this time of year. Using Zach Morris and Victoria Rae Sook's skillfully adapted abridgment of Shakespeare's c…
Kelley's adaptation begins with the murder of Mary which avoids preparing us for the limited life of opportunity that Bigger leads in the Black Belt of Chicago and making him less sympatheti…
Composer-lyricist Joe Inconis' follow up to his teen favorite, "Be More Chill," is not only a showcase for musical comedy actress Annie Golden but a tribute to the Blaxploitation and Martial…
While Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" has a great deal to warn us about as a cautionary tale, it is also not as deep or as poetic a play as his major tragedies. Daniel Sullivan's production for F…
Neil LaBute's "Appomattox" is the most substantial of the three plays and deals with a topic new to his work. Two long-time friends, Frank, black, and Joe, white, are having a picnic in the …
Following up on Luis Alfaro's critically acclaimed Chicano retelling of Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" called "Oedipus El Rey," The Public Theater now stages his equally relevant and timely "Mojad…
Series A of this year's Summer Shorts: 13th Festival of New American Short Plays is unified around the theme of death and dying and how it affects the living. Lest you think that this sounds…
It is not until the second act of British playwright Chris Urch's "The Rolling Stone" that the play catches fire but from then on the drama is explosive, compelling and very disturbing. Once…
The three Havel one acts, known as "The Vanek Plays," though written separately, were originally banned in Czechoslovakia and performed secretly in people's living rooms as well as being pas…
While Will T.F. Carter's "Barabbas" is very outspoken on the topic of political corruption in Peru, the play is dramatically weak as so much of it is exposition. In each scene we learn a lit…
Matthew Amendt's new play "The Comedian's Tragedy" asks the burning question why did Aristophanes, the master of Greek comedy, never write any tragedies. Socrates in Plato's "Symposium" equa…
Lydia R. Diamond's "Toni Stone" is a tour de force for one actress and Obie Award winner April Matthis gives a bravura performance as the first woman to play professional baseball as part of…
