1,800 stories by "Elisabeth Vincentelli"
Two American grunts in their early 20s are holed up in a wrecked bunker in an unnamed desert. They're bored out of their minds, fruitlessly trying to get a signal...
Forget the Tony Awards " Monday night's "Bombshell" wiped them off our brains. The one-night-only concert benefit, which sold out the huge Minskoff Theatre in minutes, raised $800,000 for th…
Not many choreographers have worked with Beyoncé, Daft Punk, Jean Paul Gaultier and Pedro Almodóvar " and been produced in opera houses and culture temples around the globe. Enter Blanca…
At the 2015 Tony Awards, it paid to be either a woman or British. Or a British woman like Dame Helen Mirren, who won the night's first award " and...
It was the best of times…and the worst of times. Broadway had a record-breaking 2014-'15 season, with a whopping $1.365 billion in ticket sales. Too bad everything that glittered was...
As Steve Guttenberg learned, not every theater company wants to do Shakespeare with the star of "Police Academy." Having been AWOL from Broadway since 1990's "Prelude to a Kiss," Guttenberg.…
Shakespeare's the undisputed king when it comes to summer theater in New York. Along with Steve Guttenberg's "Henry IV, Part 1" in Riverside Park, here's where else you'll find the...
Mary-Louise Parker is the only reason to see "Heisenberg." The play's flimsy and contrived, but it provides the chance to experience her peculiar pull. Not everybody enjoys Parker's manneris…
There’s no "Cabaret" in Alan Cumming's cabaret. But then you can't blame him for skipping those ultra-familiar tunes in his Café Carlyle debut, "Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs." Happi…
Probably no one does tense, awkward nerd better than Jesse Eisenberg. We've seen him play that type in the movies "The Social Network" and "Adventureland," and in the off-Broadway plays...
When one of the two characters in a play is nicknamed Prime Evil, things are bound to get tense. And so they do in the quietly gripping show "A Human...
Geneva Carr is really good at playing moms. She can do nice ones, as in the AT&T ads where she fretted about rollover minutes. But she's even better in Robert...
If "Chaplin" could make it to Broadway, so could "Cagney." Both musicals profile Hollywood icons, but while "Chaplin" was clunky and bloated, the light-footed "Cagney" at least makes you cur…
If you're going to spend an hour and a half listening to a mildly irreverent riff on the Bible, it might as well be with Jim Parsons. Who better to...
Nice girls finish last. OK, maybe not dead last, but not far from the bottom. At least that's the case in Melissa Ross' new play "Nice Girl," whose title character,...
A clunker of a Broadway show, "Mothers and Sons" asks us to endure the vacuous chit-chat of deeply unpleasant people. The worst part is, there isn't even a good reason...
You know a movie's a bona fide phenome non when it spawns a spoof or a stage version. "Black Swan" delivers on both counts with "SWAN!!!," which the irreverent troupe QWAN (Quality Without …
Location, location, location: That motto applies not only to real estate but to theater. Tennessee Williams' one-act play "Green Eyes" may be slight, but staging it in an actual hotel room -…
WHATTHEHELLWASTHAT?!?Forget that stretches of Florencia Lozano's "underneathmybed" are in Spanish. While those who don't speak that language are at a slight disadvantage, it's relatively ea…
John Kander and Fred Ebb have given American musical theater a pair of un disputable, stone- cold classics, "Cabaret" and "Chicago." Now they've added a third one to the list: "The Scottsbo…
Nothing is too outré for the theater these days. Wall-to- wall profanity? Strictly for amateurs. Onstage vomiting? So yesterday. Lucy Thurber isn't afraid to up the ante: In her plays, peo…
The last time Cherry Jones teamed with director Doug Hughes on Broadway was for "Doubt," in 2005. The result was Tonys for both, boffo box office, a national tour and a movie (starring Mery…
The key character in "What the Public Wants" is a driven media tycoon who reaches millions via dozens of publications. Through them, he seeks to entertain the many and influence the mighty.…
Although Encores! productions such as "Gypsy," "Chicago" and "Finian's Rainbow" have made it to Broadway, fans of the long-running City Center series know such transfers are beside the poin…
Before taking off for fantasyland, you're often told to close your eyes. At "The Pee-wee Herman Show," now on Broadway, you need to open them wide. As soon as you catch your first glance of…
