1,800 stories by "Elisabeth Vincentelli"
Misery springs eternal. We've seen dozens of fictional families clash be cause of a Big Traumatic Past Event, but that didn't deter Jon Robin Baitz ("The Substance of Fire," TV's "Brothers …
After the critical success of his epic "The Lily's Revenge" last year, all eyes were on Taylor Mac. Amid a cast of 40, the strikingly made-up and costumed writer-performer blossomed in the …
When characters be come popular on a sitcom, they're sometimes spun off into their own series.That's what should happen to Sherry and Grace, the mismatched sisters in Kim Rosenstock's new o…
Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel "Orlando" poses daunting challenges to stage adapters. The title character starts off as a boy, then becomes a woman. And not only does Orlando live through the …
Just when Broadway and off- Broadway go into their post- holiday hibernation, Performance Space 122 steps in with out-there productions aimed at the head, the guts and the heart. No wonder …
There's nothing quite like "Elling" on Broadway. Based on the Norwegian book and film of the same name, this Oslo-set play is about a pair of socially impaired men who learn to live on thei…
Sausage, anybody? Actually, John Kelly's "Pass the Blutwurst, Bitte" has nothing to do with meat products and everything to do with Austrian painter Egon Schiele. A skilled chameleon, write…
What did come as a bit of a shock was the open glee with which some critics took down the show. It's as if they were happy the musical wasn't good, and I'm not sure that's an appropriate fra…
Method acting, famously adopted by Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, involves actors digging deep within themselves to find their character's emotional truth. Though the technique's lost …
A charismatic, seductive tycoon is key to Scott Brooks' new comedy, "ScreenPlay." Had a charismatic, seductive leading man been cast, this wan Hollywood satire might have gone somewhere. Unf…
'Freckleface Strawberry" may be based on the kids book by the ac tress Julianne Moore, but it feels more like a version of "Free To Be . . . You and Me." Like that 1972 album and subsequent…
The best fairy tales have a dark side, and the best storytellers aren't afraid to address it. Adapting Hans Christian Andersen's "The Red Shoes" -- about a girl who literally can't stop danc…
High- and low-brow collide in "La Bete," an American play about art vs. commerce that's set in 1654 France. It's entirely in rhyming couplets, but it also gets laughs from farting and burpi…
The prolific A.R. Gurney has made a specialty of documenting a certain slice of America: Northeast-based, white, middle-class families bound by a strong sense of kinship and precisely delin…
The Thrilla from Wasilla is nowhere to be seen in "Picking Palin." But she weighs heavily on the minds of the characters in this Fringe Fest production -- a quartet of high-ranking Republic…
Edward Albee is an undisputed titan of American theater: This is the man, after all, who wrote "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" "Three Tall Women" and "The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?" So it's…
Shared space plays a big part in Adam Rapp's new "Hall way Trilogy." It even extends to the Rattlestick Theatre itself, where the stage now runs along the entire side of the house. Hallways…
It's not every day that we get a former Bond Girl on a New York stage -- a Bond Girl who isn't Diana Rigg, that is.
There are star vehicles, and then there's "The Diary of a Madman," which is like a gold-plated, diamond-encrusted Ferrari for Geoffrey Rush. And the Australian actor -- a leading contender …
Sheila Callaghan's lat est play, "Roadkill Confidential," starts off with a strong David Lynch vibe. An FBI man in an eye patch (Danny Mastrogiorgio) spouts terse, cryptic lines. Blondie pl…
It's a good time for pe riod pieces -- espe cially wacky ones. On the Great White Way, the rambunctious "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" is a bio-musical that's part Looney Tunes, part emo ro…
There's a giant pileup at the Belasco Theatre, where "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" opened last night. The show is flashy, breathless, busy. It's a mess, but it's a big, fun Te…
The best fairy tales have a dark side, and the best storytellers aren't afraid to address it. Adapting Hans Christian Andersen's "The Red Shoes" -- about a girl who literally can't stop danc…
Though it boasts a golden pedigree — a book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, music by Jule Styne — “Bells Are Ringing,” from 1956, is often considered a d…
