1,091 stories by "Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief"
Actor Ryan Spahn's first play "Inspired by True Events" at the new Theatre 145 (formerly the Ohio Space) is a professional, skillful production. Unfortunately, as a backstage thriller it lea…
MarÃa Irene Fornés' rediscovered "La Viuda" is a valuable addition to her better known canon. It is a challenging play in that it is basically an 80-minute monologue with other character…
In "Empire," Caroline Sherman and Robert Hull attempt to tell a very big story but are unable to bring this unwieldy tale into suitable shape. The time traveling framework is both unnecessar…
Correa who for many years worked for Congresswoman Constance A. Morella knows his way around government and his characters are very convincing. The casting of Diane Paulus' production is sup…
David McDonald has discovered onto an obscure and interesting story: 15-year-old Ella Fitzgerald's incarceration in the New York Training School for Girls in Hudson, New York, after her moth…
It is the first year that Haley's comet has been predicted. Sally Poppy, trapped in a loveless marriage at age 21, has committed a murder with her lover of a child from a rich family she has…
The play is framed, movie style, by a trial of the leading character, so that the bulk of the play becomes a flashback to what led up to it. However, the show which is occasionally amusing i…
"David" now at the AMT Theater is an ambitious Off Broadway musical dramatizing the story of the youth of the hero David, later second king of Israel. It has a bouncy contemporary score by A…
While most of the songs presented were standards, there were some oddities and curiosities like five cuts songs, one song from a Ford Motor Company industrial show by Bock and Harnick, and t…
The dialogue is smart and sophisticated. The author's unfocused theme seems to be the conflict between Marina and Nikki as to journalistic ethics. Marina believes in reporting the story what…
Ashley Griffin's "The Opposite of Love" is not afraid to tackle questions of sex, intimacy, abuse and suicide. It does so with great sensitivity and delicacy. It is as though the author does…
Laura Winters' "All of Me" is a lively rom-com of rich boy meets poor girl much on the lines of 1930's film comedies. However, the new wrinkle here is that Lucy is disabled using a motorized…
Playwright Jake Shore has something serious on his mind but his scatter-shot take on Artificial Intelligence does not make the case. The repetitious dialogue and events only undercut the int…
Ronnie Larsen, Allen Lewis Rickman and Jeni Hacker in a scene from Larsen's "The Actors" at Theatre Row (Photo credit: Russ Rowland) Playwright and actor Ronnie Larsen, best known for his se…
Dan Lauria's "Just Another Day" is quite leisurely in its delivery but Lauria and McCormack inhabit their roles. While the play could use some pruning, it is a charming portrait of two elder…
Playwright and actor Ronnie Larsen, best known for his series of erotic plays with titles like "Making Porn" and "Sleeping with Straight Men," has now switched to a charmingly humorous Neil …
The eye-filling sets by Hannah Beachler and video and projection design by Daniel Brodie include subtle tributes to Black Culture that not all theatergoers may notice on a first look. When D…
The lead of the show is film star Eddie Redmayne, who won the Olivier Award for his performance as the Emcee in the London production and is also Tony nominated for this show. Director Rebec…
In fact, the play which ought to be hilarious is almost devoid of jokes as the premise which is politically incorrect will make many white playgoers uncomfortable " unless this is the point …
Director Nicholas Viselli has done well with the characterizations but is unable to resolve the thinness of the backstories which are not fleshed out by the script. The shallow set which has…
Jessica Burr's Blessed Unrest production of Marguerite Duras' "La Musica Deuxième"Â in the 1992 translation by Barbara Bray is like a violent Jean Paul Sartre short story directed in the …
The new musical "Hell's Kitchen" has made a successful transition to Broadway from The Public Theater and the new version seems to have corrected some of the flaws from before. This juke-box…
Things are not helped by Mini Lien's bland setting that looks more like a furniture showroom than the family manse held for decades and passed down to the present inhabitants. The new adapta…
In the very first scene it becomes apparent that we are watching "The Pursuit of Happiness," a new play from the Good Company, an indie theater group that has been known for radical and expe…
A good deal of fun is had by Brian Pacelli's projection design which is shown on the modern and chic living room/dining room set by Christopher and Justin Swader. It takes us to the virtual …
