1,091 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
The play is not very consistent with life in 1949. It is unlikely that middle class married women cursed, smoked marijuana, quoted Simone de Beauvoir or engaged in affairs with other women. …
Robin Lord Taylor as Tennessee Williams and Brandon Flynn as Marlon Brando in a scene from Gregg Ostrin's "Kowalski" at The Duke on 42nd Street (Photo credit: Russ Rowland) Tennessee William…
When the audience enters the theater, they are asked to fill out a slip of paper with one word that has been on their mind. Part of the show is made up of audience participation and these sl…
Not only are the paintings massive but they also cover all sorts of modern periods of art without Kissajukian having known their work (abstract work by Picasso, Matisse, Joan Miró, Jackso…
If only he had carried through on that idea. We will never know if this staging might have worked as Herskovits has sabotaged all that is best in the original and made it both more confusing…
Audra McDonald in a scene from George C. Wolfe's production of "Gypsy" at the Majestic Theatre (Photo credit: Julia Cervantes) Mama Rose in the musical Gypsy, the 1959 collaboration of Arthu…
Must you love your immediate family unconditionally if you know they drive you crazy? And must you show up for family gatherings like Christmas if it always evolves into a vicious fighting m…
Typical of Singer stories about 19th century Polish Jewry, these three dramatizations combine Jewish mysticism and demonology with Baker as the narrator of two of the stories while also play…
Director Shira Milikowsky keeps increasing the tension as the 85-minute play peels away revelation after revelation. Each man has a guilty secret and may have betrayed a friend which is eati…
If one did not read Laura's extensive program notes in the Playbill given out at the Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre at the A.R.T./New York Theatres, it would not be until three quarters of …
The trio demonstrates that their voices are as supple and fine as they ever were. Each gets to play their best suit: Winokur's loud, clarion voice, Bundy's wry wit and Butler's recounting he…
Katori Halls' "The Blood Quilt" is fine as a family drama about warring sisters who both love and resent the mother who has just died. However, as a story of secrets and revelations it takes…
There is much rewriting and updating plus uncalled for interpolation like speeches from 'Romeo and Juliet" for Jessica and one of Shakespeare's sonnets ("My Mistress' eyes are nothing like t…
Katie Brayben in a scene from Elton John's new musical "Tammy Faye" at the Palace Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy) Tammy Faye, the new Broadway musical arriving at the recently renovat…
Besides the fact that many know the story of the Essex (later told in Melville's "Moby Dick") or the Mignonette told in The Avett Brothers' album of the same name, Logan has made his main ch…
How can you make a new play about a couple on a blind date in a bar interesting for today's jaded audience? In "Strategic Love Play," British playwright Miriam Battye makes them play games a…
Arliss Howard and Marisa Tomei in a scene from The New Group's production of Jessica Goldberg's "Babe" at The Pershing Square Signature Center (Photo credit: Monique Carboni) If you don't kn…
Helen J Shen and Darren Criss in a scene from the new musical "Maybe Happy Ending" at the Belasco Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy & Evan Zimmerman) The new musical Maybe Happy Endi…
Firstly, the play has been shortened to two hours without any intermissions, when most recent productions have been three and a half hours with one intermission. This makes all of the events…
Nevertheless, the play is one of several interesting takes on climate change in the theater recently like "Deep History." As the play evolves we are more and more immersed in the problems of…
This is another one of those cut down versions of Shakespeare with only ten actors in total. As result, seven of the ten actors double (one triples). The problem is that almost all of the ac…
David Pittu, Victoria Clark and John Ellison Conlee in a scene from the MasterVoices concert production of the Gershwins' "Strike Up the Band" at Carnegie Hall on October 29, 2024 (Photo cre…
Following her star turn as "Celine Dion" in "TitanÃque" which she co-wrote, Marla Mindelle has a new role in "The Big Gay Jamboree," another parody musical which she co-wrote with Jonatha…
Adam Driver in a scene from Kenneth Lonergan's "Hold on to Me Darling" at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (Photo credit: Julieta Cervantes) Film and stage star Adam Driver has stepped into the ro…
Although the play is graceful and appealing, it is mainly presented in narrative form with Delia played by Julianna Margulies in New York and Peter Gallagher playing Dr. Peter Rutter, her su…
