1,790 stories by "ELISABETH VINCENTELLI"
Three weeks after winning Tonys for the book and score of "Falsettos" in 1992, William Finn collapsed on the street " felled by a congenital brain malformation. Not only did...
Come for the stars " stay for the crazy plot! It's safe to say that the initial lure for "Wayward Pines" was the kind of deluxe cast you tend to...
Who cares about Jon Snow? Five minutes into "Poldark," the dark, broody and very much dead Jon Snow had been replaced in our hearts by the dark, broody and very...
Remember when French music stopped sucking? OK, so good stuff came out before Daft Punk " it's just that nobody outside France knew it. It took the masked duo and...
“It feels like all my friends are dying," Jordan complains in the new comedy "Significant Other." Well, technically they aren't: They're getting married, one after another, and Jordan …
What’s Chris Noth thinking in "Doctor Faustus"? Hard to tell. As the ambitious magician of Christopher Marlowe's 16th-century play " who trades his soul to Lucifer in exchange for abso…
It’s not just "Game of Thrones" that boasts jaw-dropping shockers " the new play "Gloria" has such a fantastic moment, it's killing me that I can't spill the beans. All...
Shakespeare in the Park is nothing if not wildly uneven. So it goes with the Public Theater's latest, "The Tempest," in which some of the acting is inventive and unexpected,...
Sundance TV's "Deutschland 83" is hyped as the first German-language series to be picked up by an American network. Now that's going to lure the viewing masses! And it's also...
Early in the new Lincoln Center musical "Preludes," the lead character admits to liking Gordon Lightfoot: "I know he's not cool, but he brings back a fond feeling." The surprise...
Party time! There's tenderloin on the grill and artichoke dip on the coffee table. The guests gab about real estate, traffic and overextending your neck at Pilates. You know "...
Since Season 2 of "Orange Is the New Black" premiered in June 2014, several cast members have really stepped it up in terms of visibility. Before Netflix unleashes Season 3...
“Guards at the Taj" may take place in 17th century India, but it has a very "Harold & Kumar" vibe. The play has lofty ambitions, but in reality it boils...
Chaos, delays, back-stabbing: With everything that happens behind the scenes, it's a miracle theater ever makes it to an audience. At least that's the impression we get from the new...
The vampire story has been done to death " but "Cuddles" puts a fantastic spin on it. So fresh does the blood flow that this creepily inventive British import makes...
Two American grunts in their early 20s are holed up in a wrecked bunker in an unnamed desert. They're bored out of their minds, fruitlessly trying to get a signal...
Forget the Tony Awards " Monday night's "Bombshell" wiped them off our brains. The one-night-only concert benefit, which sold out the huge Minskoff Theatre in minutes, raised $800,000 for th…
Not many choreographers have worked with Beyoncé, Daft Punk, Jean Paul Gaultier and Pedro Almodóvar " and been produced in opera houses and culture temples around the globe. Enter Blanca…
At the 2015 Tony Awards, it paid to be either a woman or British. Or a British woman like Dame Helen Mirren, who won the night's first award " and...
It was the best of times…and the worst of times. Broadway had a record-breaking 2014-'15 season, with a whopping $1.365 billion in ticket sales. Too bad everything that glittered was...
As Steve Guttenberg learned, not every theater company wants to do Shakespeare with the star of "Police Academy." Having been AWOL from Broadway since 1990's "Prelude to a Kiss," Guttenberg.…
Shakespeare's the undisputed king when it comes to summer theater in New York. Along with Steve Guttenberg's "Henry IV, Part 1" in Riverside Park, here's where else you'll find the...
Mary-Louise Parker is the only reason to see "Heisenberg." The play's flimsy and contrived, but it provides the chance to experience her peculiar pull. Not everybody enjoys Parker's manneris…
There’s no "Cabaret" in Alan Cumming's cabaret. But then you can't blame him for skipping those ultra-familiar tunes in his Café Carlyle debut, "Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs." Happi…
Probably no one does tense, awkward nerd better than Jesse Eisenberg. We've seen him play that type in the movies "The Social Network" and "Adventureland," and in the off-Broadway plays...
