1,092 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
We knew it was a great novel, but who knew Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace," Part I, would make such an exciting and innovative electro pop-rock opera? Not that the epic novel isn't a fantastic…
Two ways to invigorate Shakespeare in our time is to either cast actors not identified with classical roles or to reset the play in some unfamiliar setting. Sam Gold's magnificent production…
Seven musicians of Egypt's Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra have been sent to Israel to open the new Arab cultural center at Petah Tivah. Due to a mix up at the border, they end up in …
Rockwell who also choreographed has turned each of the songs into an extravagant, go-for-broke production number. Best are Wardell's "Noel's Lament" in which he reveals he wants to be Moniqu…
"This Day Forward" shows much tighter control than many of Nicky Silver's early anarchic plays. However, aside from offering a few wonderful characters in Malka and the older Irene, the play…
The framework is a fictional fiftieth anniversary party given in a New York art gallery by collaborating media/visual/performing artists Malik "Mk Ultra" (Christopher Livingston) and Jimmy "…
It isn't until the second act of Dan Gordon's stage adaptation of "Terms of Endearment," based on both the Larry McMurtry novel as well as the Academy Award-winning screenplay by James L. Br…
Moore's adaptation successfully uses the small, recently renovated stage of the Irish Repertory Theatre so that even with 13 actors the performance area always looks populated with the peopl…
Told in real time from five to seven PM on Election Day, November 8, 2016, not much happens in the play but as the Gabriel women talk, they reveal their hopes, their fears, their desires and…
Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's "The Front Page" remains the quintessential comedy about the tabloid newspaper racket. Jack O'Brien's production plays it safe while a more brazen and outra…
"Sweat," which won the 2016 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, is reputed inspired by interviews conducted by playwright Nottage and director Kate Whoriskey in Reading, Pennsylvania, named the poo…
Not only does Nguyen have a unique sensibility and style, but the story is told entirely from the Vietnamese-American point of view, one not often seen on our stages. We hear the Americans a…
Whether you see one or both of Gurney's "Two Class Acts," these are provocative plays of ideas on topics of the day. The playwright continues to demonstrate that he has a wise and discerning…
"Hoi Polloi" was Coward's tribute to the London working class that was trying to get back on its feet after the devastation of World War II. Partly out of his element and partly as Coward ne…
Introducing what he dubbed a pair of "Comedies of Crime," NYGASP's artistic director Albert Bergeret offered what he said was a first of a new series for the company: intimate performances o…
In his Broadway productions, David Leveaux has often used a strong directorial concept such as his Chekhovian 'Fiddler on the Roof" and his interracial "Romeo and Juliet" which did not work …
Company XIV has applied its inimitable Baroque-Burlesque style to the Greek myth of the Judgement of Paris for the second time and come up with Paris, an exotic and erotic adults-only entert…
The play is both satiric and trenchant. The conversations of the men are laced with profanity much like David Mamet's real estate men in Glengarry Glen Ross. Eliza is called everything in th…
Directed by high profile new British director Simon Godwin, associate director of the U.K.'s National Theatre, making his New York debut, this "Cherry Orchard" seems to have no interpretatio…
Aside from the syncopated, bouncy score, the single best element is the sensational choreography by director Colgan whose dances also impressed in his revival of Oh, Kay! last year. While th…
While S. N. Behrman was one of the leading Broadway playwrights from the twenties through the early sixties, he went into an eclipse after his death in 1973. Since 2000, however, there have …
Music Director/Conductor Steven Reineke chose three fine singers, Colin Donnell, Laura Osnes and Nathan Gunn, to animate the Lerner and Loewe songbook, along with the terrific choir, Essenti…
Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People" is a classic of modern drama but at times it can seem musty in a poor translation. David Harrower's "Public Enemy" is not only a shrewd, accessible adaptatio…
Playwright Helen Edmundson whose stage plays have been mostly adaptations of famous literature ("The Mill on the Floss," "War and Peace," "Anna Karenina," as well as "Coram Boy" and "Thérè…
Cirque du Soleil's "Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities" has a wonderful premise and an eye-filling mise en scène. However, without the needed narration or program notes, the idea remains still …
