1,783 stories by "ELISABETH VINCENTELLI"
Is this a joke? A "Saturday Night Live" spoof? A trailer for Harlequin's Superromance line? No, those cheesetastic 30 seconds are the trailer for the new "Bridges of Madison County"...
One look at the decadent '30s mansion where "Stop Hitting Yourself" is set, and it's hard not to gasp. A giant dollar sign flashes in the background, melted cheese is...
The colorful world of historical re-enactment is tailor-made for the stage. Adults dressing up to re-create past events? That's like theater where the actors would also be the audience "...
Part of what makes romantic comedies so satisfying is that we know the mismatched, bickering pair will end up together. The fun is in watching them get there. Except, that...
Its only 90 minutes long, but by the time "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" ends, its athletic lead is in a sweat, panting. And no wonder: As Alan...
Few things age as badly as provocation. Joe Orton's black comedy "Loot" raised hackles when it opened in England in 1965. The show has all the trappings of farce "...
In her live show "Green Porno," Isabella Rossellini talks about the birds and the bees . . . and the snails, the whales, the spiders and the dragonflies. Based on Rossellini's …
For ambitious actors of a certain age, "King Lear" is a rite of passage. The hair's going, the beard's graying " and suddenly they feel the urge to sink their...
One of the most thrilling shows on Broadway is about a woman who kills her husband in cold blood. That would pack in the tourists . . . if we were talking...
There’s a famous movie called "Rear Window." Now there's an infamous play that should be titled "Rear Entry." Based on Toni Bentley's "erotic memoir," the new solo "The Surrender" deta…
The hero of the new play "Year of the Rooster" is one angry bird. "I think I could kill a cow if I put my mind to it," Odysseus Rex...
Some movie stars fill seats in the theater and then can't deliver " but Cate Blanchett does both. From "Hedda Gabler" to "A Streetcar Named Desire" to 2012's "Uncle Vanya,"...
A dozen years ago, we saw an explosion of music mashups " in which two different songs were combined to create a catchy Frankenhit. The COIL festival's "Tyson vs. Ali"...
Think taking your brood to restaurants can get expensive? You may have to borrow against your 401(k) for a night out on Broadway. But from Feb. 24 to March 2,...
You'd have a hard time finding a more cultured New Yorker than Ven. He's a regular at the Met, Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall. He's game for Baroque opera...
Five TV and movie stars who didn’t fare well on the New York stage in 2013.
A terrible play is worse than a terrible movie. Not only are you watching something bad, but you're just a few feet away from live actors embarrassing themselves. Because it's...
There's the circus, and then there's Cirque Éloize. Unlike the Big Apple Circus and Ringling Bros., the Montreal-based Éloize has no animals, and it favors theaters rather than big t…
The cavernous Theater at Madison Square Garden " a soulless hangar with awful acoustics " is a terrible place to see a show. And yet "A Christmas Story " The...
Most performance artists are completely unknown outside of museum and gallery circles. And then there's Marina Abramovic. The glamorous 67-year-old Serbian has reached such a level of hipste…
If all you knew of Ireland came from plays, you'd think it was a nation of underemployed eccentrics who loved spinning tales " and arguing " in florid language. Also,...
It's easy to see why Fiona Shaw was a witch on "True Blood" and nasty Aunt Petunia in the Harry Potter movies: The tall, strong-featured Irish actress can do intense...
The action in "The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence" jumps around time periods and settings, the transitions between them smoothed by a large curtain that glides around on a...
The hottest new musical in town doesn't technically exist. But anybody who saw the exhilarating concert version of "Hit List" Sunday night will hope it soon becomes a reality. Haven't...
Since 1893, only 12 dancers have been designated "prima ballerina assoluta," which is like being crowned empress of the ballet galaxy. So it's a big deal that the last one...
