1,800 stories by "Elisabeth Vincentelli"
One of the most thrilling shows on Broadway is about a woman who kills her husband in cold blood. That would pack in the tourists . . . if we were talking...
There’s a famous movie called "Rear Window." Now there's an infamous play that should be titled "Rear Entry." Based on Toni Bentley's "erotic memoir," the new solo "The Surrender" deta…
The hero of the new play "Year of the Rooster" is one angry bird. "I think I could kill a cow if I put my mind to it," Odysseus Rex...
Some movie stars fill seats in the theater and then can't deliver " but Cate Blanchett does both. From "Hedda Gabler" to "A Streetcar Named Desire" to 2012's "Uncle Vanya,"...
A dozen years ago, we saw an explosion of music mashups " in which two different songs were combined to create a catchy Frankenhit. The COIL festival's "Tyson vs. Ali"...
Think taking your brood to restaurants can get expensive? You may have to borrow against your 401(k) for a night out on Broadway. But from Feb. 24 to March 2,...
You'd have a hard time finding a more cultured New Yorker than Ven. He's a regular at the Met, Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall. He's game for Baroque opera...
Five TV and movie stars who didn’t fare well on the New York stage in 2013.
A terrible play is worse than a terrible movie. Not only are you watching something bad, but you're just a few feet away from live actors embarrassing themselves. Because it's...
There's the circus, and then there's Cirque Éloize. Unlike the Big Apple Circus and Ringling Bros., the Montreal-based Éloize has no animals, and it favors theaters rather than big t…
The cavernous Theater at Madison Square Garden " a soulless hangar with awful acoustics " is a terrible place to see a show. And yet "A Christmas Story " The...
Most performance artists are completely unknown outside of museum and gallery circles. And then there's Marina Abramovic. The glamorous 67-year-old Serbian has reached such a level of hipste…
If all you knew of Ireland came from plays, you'd think it was a nation of underemployed eccentrics who loved spinning tales " and arguing " in florid language. Also,...
It's easy to see why Fiona Shaw was a witch on "True Blood" and nasty Aunt Petunia in the Harry Potter movies: The tall, strong-featured Irish actress can do intense...
The action in "The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence" jumps around time periods and settings, the transitions between them smoothed by a large curtain that glides around on a...
The hottest new musical in town doesn't technically exist. But anybody who saw the exhilarating concert version of "Hit List" Sunday night will hope it soon becomes a reality. Haven't...
Since 1893, only 12 dancers have been designated "prima ballerina assoluta," which is like being crowned empress of the ballet galaxy. So it's a big deal that the last one...
Burt Bacharach may be a pop genius with a host of Grammys, Oscars and chart-toppers under his belt, but his theatrical record is spotty. His 1968 musical, "Promises, Promises," did well...
Daniel Kitson's done pretty well for a prickly Englishman who eschews TV. Often described as a comedian, he doesn't fire off jokes but mulls over things like identity and death....
The last time Frances McDormand appeared on a New York stage, she won a Tony for portraying a working-class mom in the gritty 2011 drama "Good People." Her new project...
It didn't take long for theater lovers to suggest that Disney's "Frozen" " with its Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez score " was a natural for the stage. The Disney...
Terrence McNally loves peeking behind the scenes, and he's made arcane subjects widely accessible. His best-known play, 1995's "Master Class," is about the prickly relationship between a ret…
When a family gathering gets boring, you can either turn on the TV or split. Not so at the intermissionless "Regular Singing," which unfolds as members of the Apple clan...
Right now Broadway exists in an alternate reality where bleak existentialism is trending. But there's a simple explanation for Pinter's "No Man's Land" and Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" thri…
'Why am I a hero if I die, and a nuisance if I live?" It's a question that haunts many veterans. In Charles Fuller's heavy-handed new drama, "One Night . . . ,"...
