Contributor: Hal Glatzer

Hal Glatzer is a performer, journalist, novelist and playwright. He has been singing all his life. Nowadays, he plays guitar and sings from "the Great American Songbook"the hits of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway. Hal started in journalism in the 1970s as a daily newspaper reporter, and moved into TV news. But he focused on the rise of the computer industry, and stayed on that beat until the mid-'90s when, ironically, the internet killed the market for high-tech journalists. So he turned to writing mystery fiction, starting with a tale of a hacker who gets in trouble with organized crime. He next wrote a series featuring a working musician in the years leading up to World War II, whose gigs land her in danger. During the pandemic, he penned some new adventures of Sherlock Holmes. His stage plays are mysteries too: one with Holmes and one with Charlie Chan. More often, though, he writes (and produces) audio-plays, performed in old-time-radio style. A grateful product of the New York City public schools, including Bronx Science, he moved away from the city for many years, but returned in 2022 to live on his native island, Manhattan.
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Hans Litten: The Jew Who Cross-Examined Hitler

Don’t Try to Embarrass Hitler!

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First Warning – A Strindberg Comedy

August Strindberg one-act play, “First Warning,” is a sitcom! Hal Glatzer reviews.

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This Is Not a Drill – But It’s a Valuable Lesson

A Civil Defense alert was just a drill, but some took it seriously. Hal Glatzer was on Hawaii that day and reviews the play inspired by the event.

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Shakespeare in Repertory With “Now Speak”

People may think Shakespeare wrote “for the ages,” but it’s not true. In every century since his, dramaturgs and directors have had to adapt the surviving texts to make it easier for audiences to understand…

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Piaf! The Show Brings the Great Chanteuse to New York

Edith Piaf is not widely known today. A French—but genuinely transatlantic—celebrity in the years after World War II, she was tiny (four-foot-eight, and nicknamed “The Little Sparrow”) yet renowned for the gargantuan passion she infused…

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Compare and Contrast the Four Gospels

What a challenge! In Four Evangelists Walk Into a Fog, John, Luke, Matthew and Mark inexplicably tumble out of the fog of history and into . . . “Where are we?” They know it’s the…

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Oil & Whiskey – Date Night with Your Ex?

In this musical two-hander, exes who agree to meet for a drink get along like oil and water—or in keeping with title—as Oil & Whiskey do. After three years apart, “Him” (Jater Webb) is eager…

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Anti-Gone on the Ballot

After 2,500 years, there are still good reasons to revive Antigone and make it resonate with today’s audiences. In this sixty-minute production, courtesy of the NYC Fringe Festival, there’s no need for “modern dress.” White…

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