1,790 stories by "ELISABETH VINCENTELLI"
Let's face it: You don't go to "Timon of Ath ens" expecting much -- if you go at all. Widely assumed to be co-written by Shakespeare and fellow playwright Thomas Middleton, this uneven trage…
An early scene in the new off- Broadway play "The Whipping Man" demonstrates the devastating power of words. We're in April 1865 and the war has just ended. A young Confederate soldier, Cal…
Doug is a living nightmare for health-insurance companies: He's more than accident-prone -- he's a lightning rod for calamities. In Rajiv Joseph's uneven play "Gruesome Playground Injuries,…
Central Asia is a hair-pulling mess. And as we see in "The Great Game: Afghanistan," it's been a mess for a long time. Covering the years 1842 to the present, this London import tracks a si…
Shared space plays a big part in Adam Rapp's new "Hall way Trilogy." It even extends to the Rattlestick Theatre itself, where the stage now runs along the entire side of the house. Hallways…
A waitress silently prepares for work. Her black-and-white uniform in place, she counts her teeth. No. 31 is AWOL, but she finds it somewhere behind her neck, and slides it back in place. T…
https://youtu.be/5sGOwFVUU0I If it's late May, it means it's time for the annual Pop Apocalypse, aka the Eurovision Song Contest. Because when it comes to over-the-top, cray-cray musical dem…
Ghosts, violence, gore: Where do we sign up?! We don't see this stuff a lot at the theater, so "The Other Thing" at least has novelty on its side. Sadly...
You could expect "The Sound and the Fury" to be a tedious slog. And yet, strangely, it's not. This fearful anticipation comes from the fact that the show is a...
Pauline is a good daughter. Every Tuesday, she visits her newly widowed father, tidies up his house, does his laundry and shops with him at the local supermarket. Dad's response:...
Eric (Justin Bartha) and Cynthia (Elizabeth Reaser) are in trouble. He teaches computer science at a Texas college but is too much of a weenie to go for department chair....
"The Way We Get By" is off-Broadway's answer to a Hollywood rom-com " the kind where a young, attractive couple overcomes obstacles and disputes about "Star Wars" to sail off...
She hasn't had a Broadway show yet, but Annie Baker is the It playwright of the moment. Ever since her breakthrough show, 2009's "Circle Mirror Transformation," Baker has steadily climbed...
With the premiere of David Guetta and Nicki Minaj's "Hey Mama" video " on upstart subscription service Vessel, natch " it's hard not to wonder who hasn't worked with the...
The Valuable Lesson play tends be predictable: Somebody somehow ends up learning a heartwarming thing or two about life and one' s self. This is exactly what happens in "What...
South African playwright Athol Fugard has spent nearly six decades exploring his country's bitter divides. It's not that everybody suddenly reconciles in his new play, "The Painted Rocks at …
"The more you see, the less anything makes sense in this town." By the time friendly barkeep Beverly (Juliette Lewis) says that to Secret Service agent Ethan Burke (Matt Dillon),...
https://youtu.be/UHj8TMTq8fA So that's where Kalinda has been hiding: the frozen-food aisle! A lot happened on season 6 of "The Good Wife," but Archie Panjabi's announcement of her exit from…
Now that's a test of ingenuity: How do you translate "Cool Hand Luke," which takes place on a Florida chain gang, to the stage with no set or props? This...
When Encores! announced that John Turturro would star in its concert version of "Zorba!," the big question was: "But can he sing?!?" Um, not really. But to his credit, Turturro...
The events leading up to the explosive Attica Prison riot of 1971 promise to be the stuff of compelling drama. It's too bad, then, that "ToasT" is so undercooked. Though...
At last, the crypto-gay, cannibal mafia comedy we haven't been waiting for! "Dinner With the Boys" is all that and less: Ineptly written, directed and acted, this is one hell...
At times, "Forever" " Dael Orlandersmith's new solo piece about growing up with a violent drunk of a mother " is like the film "Precious," only with songs by Patti...
When people get what they want on a TV series, it's bad news for the show. Just look at what's happened on "House of Cards," and is currently unraveling on...
