1,791 stories by "ELISABETH VINCENTELLI"
No wonder Bradley Cooper picked "The Elephant Man" for his return to Broadway. This is a labor of love for the star, who chose it for his acting school master's...
Truman Capote's 1956 short story "A Christmas Memory" is one of his most popular works " it's been made into TV specials, radio plays, an opera and this musical. But...
Nothing went horribly wrong during NBC's live telecast of the musical "Peter Pan." Allison Williams didn't embarrass herself in the cross-dressing title role. The wires held up during the fl…
“The Illusionists" seems so much like a Vegas revue that you half expect that it comes with an all-you-can eat buffet. And when we say Vegas, we mean something old-school...
When "Cabaret" opened in April, Alan Cumming dialed it up to 11 as the provocative Emcee of the show's seedy Kit Kat Club. He was the production's darkly charismatic guide,...
Warning: Spoilers ahead Was anybody really surprised that Beth (Emily Kinney) went down in the midseason finale of "The Walking Dead"? That poor waif has had a target on her...
Annaleigh Ashford is funny as hell. The gifted comedienne brought down the house nightly (and netted a Tony nod) in Cyndi Lauper's "Kinky Boots." She's even more hilarious in her...
Lypsinka has been a New York icon for almost 30 years. And she's never uttered a single word. Not that the flamboyant, highly theatrical redhead has nothing to say. It's...
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...
