1,092 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
The problem with Peter Dobbins' productions is not the quaint spiritual underpinnings of the plays but the fact that they are directed too leisurely and consequently do not generate any laug…
The live action elements of the show are performed on various platforms and screens on which are projected Deco Dawson's designs which give the dramatization a 3-D look. In addition to 2 -D …
The two women size each other up, first by Sister Rosetta singing such gospel numbers as "This Train," "Rock Me" and "Sit Down," while Marie demonstrates her style with "Were You There When …
The single disadvantage of director Patricia McGregor's approach is that in cutting so much text, the events of the play seem to occur one on top of each other, making the play a bit melodra…
Under Bob Moss' vigorous and energetic direction, the cast of 20 young actors grab hold of the show and never let up for a moment playing a multitude of colorful New York types with energy a…
Director Austin Pendleton made some choices which don't help the now creaky play. Although Peter is described as ten years younger than Helen, Pendleton has cast the ever reliable Bradford C…
Like his "Apple Family Plays," Nelson's "The Gabriel" cycle all take place in a kitchen on a specific day in almost real time using the same six actors to play the family members. These are …
Unlike the original short story which was set on a rural farm in Cornwall, England, and the film which was reset in Bodega Bay, California, the play takes place entirely in the main room of …
While the New York City Opera's staging of "Aleko" could not be called a major rediscovery, it was an admirable attempt to offer a non-standard repertory work that had probably not been seen…
The show includes pole vaulting, giant flowers that rise up out of the ground, the building of the bone structure of the totemic Thanator, the high flying of the Toruk, a flock of birds play…
Following "Bachelorette" and "Assistance," Leslye Headland's latest play, The Layover, is a taut psychological thriller told in an updated film noir style. Trip Cullman, who has directed all…
Taub's eclectic score to original lyrics includes jazz, rhythm and blues, pop, Broadway and ragtime. Among Kwei-Armah's ingenious touches were his use of a series of community cameo groups p…
Written in 415 B.C. as a criticism of the Athenian capture of Melos and the subjugation of its population earlier that year, "The Trojan Women" has remained relevant throughout the last 2,50…
Now that we have been through all the angry play movements, literate writers like N.C. Hunter and Terence Rattigan are once again ripe for revival. While in his own time, Hunter was criticiz…
Toni Press-Coffman's "Touch" is a rather challenging play both in that a great deal of it is narrated in recollection and also that it deals with much naked emotion. The cast led by Peter Mc…
While "LUNT AND FONTANNE: The Celestials of Broadway" is a fine and concise review of their careers for people who have never heard of them, Murphy and Lang make them seem more superficial t…
Laden with jokes, sight gags and flamboyant characters, Mr. Free's well-constructed and startling work combines the outrageous sensibilities of John Waters' films with the social consciousne…
Richard Alfredo's 'The Dark Clothes of Night," a brilliant parody/homage to film noir and hardboiled fiction, the third play of Summer Shorts " Series B, is so good it alone is worth the pri…
While "Troilus and Cressida" is rarely staged, Daniel Sullivan's production full of bombs and smoke suggests that in our time of endless wars it speaks to us again, and the play's cynicism a…
As might be expected LaBute's new one act, "After the Wedding," contains a shocker. However, when it arrives in Maria Mileaf's production, it is so matter-of-fact that it has little or no im…
While "A Class Act" covers material dramatized elsewhere, Norman Shabel's play, seen at The Playroom earlier this year, is always absorbing, always unpredictable. The seven member cast is to…
Inspired by the playwright's attending a silent spiritual retreat at an upstate New York institute in the woods, this is an absorbing play which immediately causes the viewers to listen inte…
Playing his most mature role to date, Radcliffe, late of Harry Potter, is charming as he begins as an introverted, reticent Englishman and then slowly panics as he realizes the extent to whi…
While the play can be a tour de force, Kathryn Luce Garfunkel is so one dimensional that her Flora has little weight. She exudes languidness and laziness, but fails to make Flora anything ot…
Three-time Tony nominee Brian Murray returns to the New York stage for the first time in four years as a retired professor of parapsychology who has put aside his own career to foster that o…
