1,783 stories by "ELISABETH VINCENTELLI"
'come and knock on our door/We've been waiting for you . . ." Although the names have been changed, the premise of the new off-Broadway show "3C" will be familiar to anybody with a passing k…
Shakespeare in the Park is turning 50 this year, and its new production of "As You Like It" is a great gift to itself " and us.
Something special is happening here: The parts may not all be …
Whether you like them or not, the Amoralists' gritty shows are like no other " thanks mostly to resident playwright Derek Ahonen's distinctive mix of hyper-realism and satire, brash violence…
Martha Gellhorn was a bold, opinionated woman. Fearless, too: She worked as a war correspondent and married Ernest Hemingway. Then she dumped him.
Now, 14 years after her death, Gellhorn is…
It's about depression, boredom, thwarted ambition and hopeless loves. And it's one of the most popular plays in New York.
Indeed, not a year goes by without someone taking a stab at Chekhov…
Few things on Broadway are as old-fashioned as "Harvey." And it's not just because Mary Chase's play is from 1944 " plenty of older works have more edge than this butter knife of a show.
Wha…
Abi Morgan is hot right now. Last year alone, this Englishwoman wrote the high-profile movies "Shame" and "The Iron Lady" and created the critically acclaimed miniseries "The Hour…
It took a whopping seven writers, four directors and three producers to come up with "We Play for the Gods." But rather than an embarrassment of riches, this new show by the Women's Project …
There are two things you should know about "Rapture, Blister, Burn." It's about feminism, and it's fun.
Plays that focus on any kind of -ism tend to provoke a recoil reflex: Who goes to the …
Set in The Bronx in 2009, "Storefront Church" includes balloon payments, influence peddling and the real estate crisis. But don't go to John Patrick Shanley's new play expecting ripped-from-…
There are two surefire ways to make an audience go "awww" " prominently feature a puppy or food. As its title indicates, "Food and Fadwa" picked option B.
In a series of mock cooking-show se…
The witless "Medieval Play" might have been written by a cocky 16-year-old boy. And not just any boy, but one eager to show off his arcane erudition (the story revolves around 14th-century p…
Some plays can stretch a tiny plot for hours. They finally grind to a halt, and you're still wondering what the heck they were trying to say.
And then there's Alena Smith's "The Bad Guys": …
Don't expect anything groundbreaking from "Chimichangas and Zoloft." Fernanda Coppel's play may be new, but its themes are well-worn: girls coming of age, sexual identity, philandering husba…
The new off-Broadway show "Potted Potter" is subtitled "The Unauthorized Harry Experience " A Parody by Dan and Jeff." In truth, this British import has zero satirical bite. Rather, it's a c…
It's hard to believe, considering the amount of publicity they've gotten, but New Jersey is not just Snooki and her GTL routine. (For those unfamiliar with MTV's "Jersey Shore," that's gym, …
Though Lou Reed name-checked him in "Walk on the Wild Side" " as the one who "thought she was James Dean for a day" " Jackie Curtis is less famous today than fellow Warhol superstars Holly W…
Part of the fun of going to the theater is watching live performers create a different world in front of our eyes.
That's not enough for some enterprising directors, so they go the extra mil…
Anglophiles with a fetish for bookish Cambridge students politely arguing about literature and life may get a kick out of "The Common Pursuit." Others may find themselves looking at their wa…
Anyone who caught the revivals this year of "The Road to Mecca" and "Blood Knot" knows that South African playwright Athol Fugard takes his sweet time to get to the point.
Both shows were bu…
Gypsy Rose Lee, Carson McCullers, Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden walk into a house . . . This sounds like the setup for either a highbrow joke or Harvey Weinstein's latest Oscar-bait movie,…
It's tempting to think of "Title and Deed" as an elaborate prank played on a helpless audience.
This new piece by Will Eno " the critically acclaimed author of "Thom Pain (based on nothing)…
The new revue "Old Jews Telling Jokes" is inspired by the Web site of the same name " which consists of a parade of elderly cut-ups delivering jokes.
But unlike the Web, which you can leave…
Never mind its provocative title: "Cock" is about love. Things get complicated as people fall in and out of it, but this wonderful 90-minute show renders the emotional mess with great simpli…
Mark Ravenhill " best known for "Shopping and F - - king," a 1998 hit at New York Theatre Workshop " is one of Britain's finest provocateurs. His 2006 play "Pool (No Water)" spares us the ra…
