1,791 stories by "ELISABETH VINCENTELLI"
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 "…
There are two ways to score a Broadway hit: Load up on name stars and make a mint during a limited run, or bank on good bones that can get through years of cast changes.
Anything involving …
What do Fantasia Barrino, Constantine Maroulis and Clay Aiken have in common? "American Idol," of course " but also Broadway: They're just three of the former contestants who have successful…
Much like its subject, the new Broadway musical "Soul Doctor" is terminally earnest and relentlessly sunny. Both also share a fish-out-of-water quality.
The show's central character was a m…
Aptly enough, "Einstein" " the inept new drama about the father of the relativity theory " makes time slow to a crawl. When it finally ends, you're not sure if you've been at the theater for…
'it's the first time together and I'm feeling kinda horny/Conventional methods of makin' love kinda bore me."
You may have guessed this lyric " crooned, R&B-style, in "Love's Labour's Lost" …
By the end of Broadway's "First Date," Zachary Levi has won over the entire audience " you can feel everybody, women and men, young and old, swooning. If someone happened to smuggle in a sma…
Part of Young Jean Lee's appeal is that you never know what she's going to do. The downtown playwright's recent works include a look at African-American stereotypes ("The Shipment"), a king-…
Timing is everything in this free "Richard III." The show runs 2 1/2 hours without intermission, which means you may want to hit the bathroom before it starts. Which in turn means a trip to …
Donna, of the new dramedy "Harbor," gabs like one of the cool kids. She tosses off insults as if they were cute and endearing, and pleads, "Come on, don't be a biatch."
Except that Donna's n…
It's hard to believe there isn't a metaphor lying around under "Rubble" " a comedy about a TV writer stuck in a pile of debris after an LA earthquake. After all, it's by TV writer Mike Reiss…
Donna, of the new dramedy "Harbor," gabs like one of the cool kids. She tosses off insults as if they were cute and endearing, and pleads, "Come on, don't be a biatch."
Except Donna's neithe…
'Shida" may last just over an hour, but it's so action-packed, you feel you're watching it in fast-forward. This could actually be fun, except that this new solo musical vaults from one melo…
The most distinctive thing about "Dancing on Nails" is how old-fashioned it is. It's as if playwright Paul Manuel Kane had never heard of modern theater trends. You're not going to find anyt…
It takes a strong woman to step into Sigourney Weaver's boots. But that's what Julie White's about to do tomorrow, when she debuts in "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," the Tony-winning …
Cozy mysteries in the Agatha Christie mold don't require hard-boiled suspense. What they need is kooky characters " and the new off-Broadway musical "Murder for Two" has plenty of them.
The…
Seeing "I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road" is like stepping into a hot-tub time machine. Under Kathleen Marshall's direction, this Encores! Off-Center presentation takes …
Seeing "I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road" is like stepping into a hot-tub time machine. Under Kathleen Marshall's direction, this Encores! Off-Center presentation takes …
