1,783 stories by "ELISABETH VINCENTELLI"
Like a murderer coming back to the scene of the crime, the “Nightmare” haunted house has returned to the Lower East Side. Now in its 10th year, the Nightmare franchise...
After her "Hedda Gabler" was unfairly savaged in 2009, Mary-Louise Parker took a few years to lick her wounds and focus on her Showtime series, "Weeds." Now the raven-tressed, porcelain-skin…
Sitting through the dull musical "The Landing," you wish John Kander had quit while he was ahead. The composer and his longtime partner, lyricist Fred Ebb, are responsible for all-time...
After two decades in the alternative-press trenches, cartoonist Alison Bechdel burst into the mainstream with the 2006 autobiographical graphic novel "Fun Home." The book was a critical and …
A lot happens in John Grisham's legal thriller "A Time to Kill," in which small-town lawyer Jake Brigance takes on a seemingly doomed client. Jake overcomes one obstacle after another...
Marie Antoinette's tragic story reads like the 18th-century version of "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and Decapitated." Mind-blowing luxury and entitlement followed by a gory comeuppance…
A legal drama drives the story but Rattigan also throws in a subplot about a love that dare not express itself between feisty suffragette Catherine Winslow and arrogant barrister Sir...
Broadway’s answer to Masterpiece Theater has just arrived in the form of "The Winslow Boy," Terence Rattigan's 1946 drama. The last Rattigan play by the Roundabout, "Man and Boy," boas…
OMG, R&J! Last week St. Ann's Warehouse gave us a "Julius Caesar" that's purportedly being put on by inmates in a women's prison. Now comes a Classic Stage Company production...
Discovering that playwright Donald Margulies is the author of "The Model Apartment" is a little like hearing that a cat gave birth to a rabbit. Margulies is best known for...
Enough of these babyÂboomer-baiting tribute concerts trying to pass for Broadway musicals! Just months after the Beatles impersonators in "Let It Be" left town comes "A Night With Janis J…
Theatergoers are usually told to turn off their cellphones " but rarely are they told their phones may be confiscated. And it's even rarer to find the restroom stalls plastered...
Eric Simonson's created a niche market for himself: He writes plays about sports icons. "Lombardi" was about the inspirational Green Bay Packers coach, "Magic/Bird" about friendly NBA rivals…
In her 1938 sci-fi novella "Anthem," Ayn Rand envisioned a groupthink society in which individualism has been forcefully eradicated.
"We are nothing, mankind is all," a member of this collec…
As its title indicates, the new musical "Lady Day" involves a whole lot of Billie Holiday songs. And since it's an off-Broadway show rather than a regular tribute concert, a dusting of biogr…
There’s a huge gap between what you see and what you hear in "Big Fish." Visually speaking, this new Broadway musical is inventive, playful and often downright magical. But then, we ex…
Let the games begin! "Bad Jews" is packed with so many vicious arguments that sometimes you want to press your hands over your ears and block out the bickering.
Luckily, those fights are als…
Jonathan Balton, the key figure of "The Film Society," is an easygoing soul who tries to placate everybody. Don't make waves " that could be his motto.
But that's not easy when you teach at …
Sexual dissatisfaction, loneliness, frustrated small-town dreams, alcoholism, tortured identity: In the 1950s, William Inge turned those unlikely themes into the Broadway hits "Come Back, Li…
This revival of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" arrives on Broadway from Cambridge, Mass., with the excitement usually reserved for "Breaking Bad" and cronuts: It's genius! You nee…
The reenactment of Supreme Court oral arguments, verbatim " sounds like an evening of fun theater, right?
OK, maybe not for everybody.
It helps that the new play "Arguendo" is based on the 1…
Some people are convinced that they're destined to be artists despite all evidence to the contrary. If they and their enablers drive you nuts, you may want to drop by the off-Broadway com…
Canadian director Robert Lepage has been in the news a lot here in the past three years " though maybe he didn't get the kind of coverage he wanted. Mostly he got flak for his staging of Wag…
Before anyone's spoken a word, you know Nikole Beckwith's new comedy, "Everything Is Ours," is going to be unusual.
Just take a gander at the set, a brightly colored living room out of a Tim…
It's autumn: Do you feel a song coming on? Broadway sure does " and this season's new musicals have something for every taste.
Those craving a big ol' traditional tuner can look forward to "…
