1,787 stories by "Elisabeth Vincentelli"
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…
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 their…
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 diverting but dated trifl…
A spectacular folly has just crash-landed at Lincoln Cen ter Theater. Eight years in the making, John Guare's latest play, "A Free Man of Color," is an ambitious, awkward, fascinating, lumbe…
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 relief. The sho…
Fraught reunions, marital discord, Russia, a supernatu ral allusion or two: Heidi Schreck's new show, "There Are No More Big Secrets," is built from promising blocks.
It all starts when G…
You come to see Al Pacino, but you stay for Lily Rabe.
As the Jewish moneylender Shylock, one of theater's most complex, reviled roles, Pacino has made the Public Theater "Merchant of Ven…
There's a reason candy canes have a twist of peppermint -- to cut the sugar. That's why the best Christmas classics, from "It's a Wonderful Life" to "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," are so …
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 …
Since 1932, it's been impossible to think of the holidays in New York without the "Radio City Christmas Spectacular." The show is now a local tradition -- and, Lord knows, there are fewer an…
And the avalanche of political plays contin ues. But rather than focusing on the recent elections, or even the Reagan and Bush administrations, Amy Herzog's "After the Revolution" goes furth…
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 …
