1,783 stories by "ELISABETH VINCENTELLI"
Burt Bacharach may be a pop genius with a host of Grammys, Oscars and chart-toppers under his belt, but his theatrical record is spotty. His 1968 musical, "Promises, Promises," did well...
Daniel Kitson's done pretty well for a prickly Englishman who eschews TV. Often described as a comedian, he doesn't fire off jokes but mulls over things like identity and death....
The last time Frances McDormand appeared on a New York stage, she won a Tony for portraying a working-class mom in the gritty 2011 drama "Good People." Her new project...
It didn't take long for theater lovers to suggest that Disney's "Frozen" " with its Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez score " was a natural for the stage. The Disney...
Terrence McNally loves peeking behind the scenes, and he's made arcane subjects widely accessible. His best-known play, 1995's "Master Class," is about the prickly relationship between a ret…
When a family gathering gets boring, you can either turn on the TV or split. Not so at the intermissionless "Regular Singing," which unfolds as members of the Apple clan...
Right now Broadway exists in an alternate reality where bleak existentialism is trending. But there's a simple explanation for Pinter's "No Man's Land" and Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" thri…
'Why am I a hero if I die, and a nuisance if I live?" It's a question that haunts many veterans. In Charles Fuller's heavy-handed new drama, "One Night . . . ,"...
Does Amanda Peet have something on Manhattan Theatre Club? It's hard to imagine why else this powerful nonprofit put up the actress' feeble first play, "The Commons of Pensacola" "...
Ethan Hawke has picked the worst possible time to show restraint. In this new "Macbeth," the star famous for throwing himself into every role with full-throttle enthusiasm mysteriously reced…
The new comic thriller "Small Engine Repair" isn't subtle, but it more than makes up for it by being tawdry, nasty and fun. It's proud pulp fiction, something we don't...
The big hook of the new musical "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder" is Jefferson Mays. He doesn't just give a performance " he gives eight of them, impersonating...
Most of the beloved movie "Little Miss Sunshine" takes place during a road trip: The hapless Hoover family drives from New Mexico to California so daughter Olive can compete in...
And the Sondheim shows keep on coming! Given the endless stream of revues and full-on revivals, you'd think he was the only Broadway composer worth paying attention to. There's a...
The autobiographical solo show has been done to death. Doesn't matter if it's a celebrity or an unknown " everybody wants to talk about themselves. But you have to hand...
No argument about who's the king of Broadway right now: It's William Shakespeare. The guy's got four shows on the Great White Way " the first time since 1987 that...
Buddies have a wide range of options: They can launch NASA programs, torch Vegas rooms, and everything in between. Girlfriends, on the other hand, have two basic choices. They can...
What a weird play "The Jacksonian" is. It's not great " at times it's not even good " but Beth Henley's new drama sure sticks in your head. And that's...
After being burned by years of low-rent movie-spoofing musicals " many of them from the Fringe " you can't be blamed for dreading "Disaster!" This new show takes on 1970s...
Few playwrights love to scratch an itch more than Bruce Norris. "Clybourne Park," his Tony- and Pulitzer-winning hit, took on race relations and gentrification with acid wit. For his new...
Since the "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" debacle, Julie Taymor's been keeping a low profile. She licked her wounds, and moved on to a new directing project " a production of...
Jukebox musicals have had a horrible reputation lately, and with reason: For every "Jersey Boys," there are twice as many cheeseballs muddling the material they're meant to honor " R.I.P....
Done badly, a Brecht play is a preachy, cartoonish embarrassment. Done right, as in this new revival of "The Good Person of Szechwan," it entertains even as it makes you...
As bizarre scenes go, it's hard to top the one in "Grasses of a Thousand Colors" where a character gets a paw job from a fluffy white cat. That seduction...
With its flashy pedigree " stars Daniel "007" Craig and his real-life wife, Rachel Weisz, plus powerhouse director Mike Nichols " Broadway's new revival of "Betrayal" was a hot ticket...
