1,783 stories by "ELISABETH VINCENTELLI"
Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kate Baldwin and other top-shelf singers star in an overly sentimental production of the long-lost Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner show.
A new musical inspired by the 1997 hit album gives a fictional back story to the veteran performers of the Havana music scene.
Also available for streaming: A masterful F. Murray Abraham in "Beckett Briefs," and Christopher Walken and Susan Sarandon in a take on "Streetcar."
Underwater drama, a daunting solo undertaking, a gaggle of students and a version of "The Cherry Orchard" that aims to recapture Chekhov's winking tone.
Underwater drama, a daunting solo undertaking, a gaggle of students and a version of "The Cherry Orchard" that aims to recapture Chekhov's winking tone.
In this Robert Wilson production, Isabelle Huppert is everywhere onstage, all at once, reciting a nonstop script that may well touch on everything.
In Rajiv Joseph's two-hander, a couple of Americans in Senegal twist, deflect, massage, stretch and maybe even tell the truth.
A play by the Nobel winner Jon Fosse gets a rare staging, but New Yorkers will have to wait a little longer to see a production that captures the Norwegian writer's haunting universe.
The Encores! revival of the musical from Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis seems even more relevant today.
Peter Mills Weiss shared details of a week of "everyone doing everything all the time, and by the seat of everyone's pants."
Instead of a departure, the writer and director Matthew Gasda's take on "Uncle Vanya" at the Brooklyn Center for Theater Research tends to adhere to the original.
Stories from refugee children, gloriously morbid puppets and a rooster who defies a dictator. These are some of the offbeat offerings this January.
A talented cast has fun in Simon Rich's Broadway debut, but the minimally staged show doesn't quite justify the hefty price of tickets.
Jay Wegman runs from rehearsals to lunches to shows for his job at N.Y.U. Skirball, then home for a "What We Do in the Shadows" episode or two.
"Elf the Musical," inventive spins on "A Christmas Carol" and classic family fare: Here are some of our favorite shows of the season.
In Ethan Lipton's musings on A.I., Mozart has a place alongside humpback whales.
Bedlam's country music show is a rollicking good time. But the New Group's production of "Babe," starring Marisa Tomei, is a frustrating one-act lacking cohesion.
"Tammy Faye," a bland, tonal mishmash of a show opening on Broadway, seems afraid to lean into what made the televangelist so distinctive.
Egyptians stand up to their government in a play that excels in its design but rings hollow when its subtext and character development are scrutinized.
Inspired by Paul Verhoeven's infamous 1995 film, "Showgirl" considers what it means to be an actress who gets naked.
The goofball spirit that made Marla Mindelle's "TitanÃque" a hit is missing from her equally campy new show drenched in pop-culture references.
Todd Almond's "I'm Almost There" is a work of wonder, while Gabriel Kahane's "Book of Travelers" and "Magnificent Bird" are less effective.
Belarus Free Theater's "KS6: Small Forward" and three other shows are reminders that there are many ways to portray conflicts and confrontations onstage.
No theatrical wizardry is needed for this compelling drama about a woman's journey to Australia from war-torn Sri Lanka and the generations that follow.
In addition to Broadway crowd-pleasers, the actor deftly navigated classics, experimental theater and new works by major contemporary playwrights.
