1,800 stories by "Elisabeth Vincentelli"
Of all the "Saturday Night Live" alums, Colin Quinn isn't the one you'd picture doing a solo show on Broadway. Will Ferrell, sure. But Quinn? He anchored "Weekend Update" for a couple of ye…
In the early '80s, the late mono loguist Spalding Gray created a show called "Interviewing the Audience" in which he did just that. He brought random theatergoers onstage and got them to op…
The most exciting mo ment in "That Championship Season" comes when Jason Patric's character, Tom, falls down a flight of stairs. For a couple of seconds, you're involved in what's happening…
Ibsen's "John Gabriel Bork man" is nowhere near as popu lar as his "Hedda Gabler" and "A Doll's House." Yet crowds are flocking to this obscure 1896 play at BAM. What gives? One reason is t…
You can take Donny and Marie Osmond out of Vegas, but you can't take Vegas out of them. Or is that Branson, Mo.? No matter: The siblings' holiday concert at the Marquis delivers everything …
Save for a precious few exceptions, the fall theater season has been disappointingly bland. And so Thomas Ostermeier's cold, cerebral “The Marriage of Maria Braun” comes as a rel…
The story of Persephone, ab ducted queen of the under world, is one of the most potent in Greek mythology -- so much so that it's inspired a steady stream of writers and artists over the ce…
'Spirit Control" gets off to a nail- biting start. Air-traffic controller Adam Wyatt (Jeremy Sisto) is helping a passenger land a small plane after the pilot passes out. Problem is, the pan…
Let's face it: You don't go to "Timon of Ath ens" expecting much -- if you go at all. Widely assumed to be co-written by Shakespeare and fellow playwright Thomas Middleton, this uneven trage…
An early scene in the new off- Broadway play "The Whipping Man" demonstrates the devastating power of words. We're in April 1865 and the war has just ended. A young Confederate soldier, Cal…
Doug is a living nightmare for health-insurance companies: He's more than accident-prone -- he's a lightning rod for calamities. In Rajiv Joseph's uneven play "Gruesome Playground Injuries,…
Central Asia is a hair-pulling mess. And as we see in "The Great Game: Afghanistan," it's been a mess for a long time. Covering the years 1842 to the present, this London import tracks a si…
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…
A waitress silently prepares for work. Her black-and-white uniform in place, she counts her teeth. No. 31 is AWOL, but she finds it somewhere behind her neck, and slides it back in place. T…
https://youtu.be/5sGOwFVUU0I If it's late May, it means it's time for the annual Pop Apocalypse, aka the Eurovision Song Contest. Because when it comes to over-the-top, cray-cray musical dem…
Ghosts, violence, gore: Where do we sign up?! We don't see this stuff a lot at the theater, so "The Other Thing" at least has novelty on its side. Sadly...
You could expect "The Sound and the Fury" to be a tedious slog. And yet, strangely, it's not. This fearful anticipation comes from the fact that the show is a...
Pauline is a good daughter. Every Tuesday, she visits her newly widowed father, tidies up his house, does his laundry and shops with him at the local supermarket. Dad's response:...
Eric (Justin Bartha) and Cynthia (Elizabeth Reaser) are in trouble. He teaches computer science at a Texas college but is too much of a weenie to go for department chair....
"The Way We Get By" is off-Broadway's answer to a Hollywood rom-com " the kind where a young, attractive couple overcomes obstacles and disputes about "Star Wars" to sail off...
She hasn't had a Broadway show yet, but Annie Baker is the It playwright of the moment. Ever since her breakthrough show, 2009's "Circle Mirror Transformation," Baker has steadily climbed...
With the premiere of David Guetta and Nicki Minaj's "Hey Mama" video " on upstart subscription service Vessel, natch " it's hard not to wonder who hasn't worked with the...
