1,783 stories by "ELISABETH VINCENTELLI"
Katori Hall made a noisy entrance on Broadway in 2011 when her drama "The Mountaintop" opened with Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett. Problem was, that play " about Martin...
Despite some bright spots, the fall finale of "The Good Wife" wasn't among the series' finest moments. This sleek sedan of a show ran more like a Kia last night...
It just doesn't seem possible, let alone right, that a tragic love story could be so fantastically fun. Yet here you are, face aching from grinning, at a show based...
Joy Behar sure has a mouth on her. No wonder she named her new solo show after it. With a career that extends more than 30 years " 16 of...
From Mary Martin to Cathy Rigby, Peter Pan has traditionally been played by a woman. The latest is Allison Williams, who'll don the green tights and pointy hat during NBC's...
It’s hard to know what's going on during Sam Shepard's new play " but "A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations)" always holds your interest. Having the great Irish star Stephen...
This new "A Delicate Balance" is like a Christmas fruitcake that's been left out too long: It's boozy and loaded with goodies " Glenn Close! John Lithgow! " but it's...
Rodgers and Hammerstein were on a roll by 1947: "Oklahoma!" and "Carousel" were huge hits, and they hoped "Allegro" would make it a threepeat. Alas, with its "Our Town"-like structure...
The only predictable thing about playwright Young Jean Lee is how unpredictable she is. Her "Lear" featured gorgeous period costumes, but no king. The wordless "Untitled Feminist Project" wa…
“Punk Rock" received pretty good reviews when it premiered in London five years ago. Maybe our British friends haven't seen as many teen dramas as we have, because the play...
NO matter how passionately someone sings "I will never leave you/I will never go away," that promise may or may not be kept. But when Violet and Daisy Hilton belt...
If "The River" was playing some dinky little theater with a bunch of unknowns, it'd be dismissed as flimsy and gimmicky. But "The River" is on Broadway, starring the ultra-likable,...
The most mysterious character on "The Good Wife" is slinky investigator Kalinda Sharma (Archie Panjabi) " but a close second may be FBI Special Agent Lana Delaney (Jill Flint), who's...
The "Radio City Christmas Spectacular" seems to have been around forever. OK, not exactly forever, but since 1933, when the show started spreading holiday cheer in razzmatazz fashion. And th…
Set in a Bronx soup kitchen, "Grand Concourse" is something of a morality tale. But while Heidi Schreck's new play is about big issues like faith and forgiveness, it has...
Put two hard-up characters in one play, add tension, and chances are they'll overcome their differences to share a valuable lesson of some kind. It's the law of dramatic catharsis....
Noises about a Broadway transfer were buzzing around before the Encores! production of "The Band Wagon" even opened. The show that just bowed at City Center is a hoot, but...
Bill Pullman and Holly Hunter are so intense, so scarily good in "Sticks and Bones" that at times it's painful to watch them " but it's impossible to forget them....
If you love Broadway's classic scores, there's no missing the New York Philharmonic's semi-staged versions. So while the new "Show Boat" doesn't always land, there are plenty of swoon-worthy…
Broadway has a spotty history when it comes to TV commercials " remember the howler for "The Bridges of Madison County"? It doesn't help that live theater can look awkward...
It’s a parent's worst nightmare " to have a child taken away. Yet the American mom in "The Oldest Boy" is kind of OK with the situation, once she's past...
To paraphrase Taylor Swift, haters gonna hate hate hate . . . and everybody else gonna buy buy buy. Surfing on a tsunami-size wave of hype, social-media hustle and product plac…
Marissa, the sassy daughter of Alan Cumming's Eli Gold, hasn’t been on "The Good Wife" all that much, yet she's become a beloved supporting character. Happily, the curly-haired s…
Tom Stoppard plays like "The Coast of Utopia" and "Arcadia" are reliably smart and witty, with intricate structures " parallel stories, jumps in time and place " that flatter audiences' e…
While "It's Only a Play" is breaking box-office records on Broadway " a textbook example of starry headliners trumping mediocre material " you may want to check out author Terrence...
