All stories by ELISABETH VINCENTELLI on BroadwayStars

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Reasons for elf-doubt by Elisabeth Vincentelli

The head writer for "SpongeBob SquarePants," Steven Banks also moonlights as the dark and twisted Billy the Mime. Now, he tries to reconcile his sugar-and-spice sides in a new play, "Looking…

SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:40AM[SHARE]
Friday, November 26, 2010

'Coward' worth a shot by Elisabeth Vincentelli

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 …

SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:05AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Fairy tale's all clogged up 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…

SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:52PM[SHARE]
Sunday, November 21, 2010

Two-and-a-laugh men by Elisabeth Vincentelli

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…

SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:42PM[SHARE]
Friday, November 19, 2010

Will ring your 'Bells' by Elisabeth Vincentelli

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…

SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 03:28PM[SHARE]

All's well that ends well in overstuffed play by Elisabeth Vincentelli

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…

SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:18AM[SHARE]
Thursday, November 18, 2010

Fascinating Fassbinder by Elisabeth Vincentelli

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…

SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 03:06PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

'Secrets' out, but play's not worth keeping by Elisabeth Vincentelli

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…

SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:26AM[SHARE]
Monday, November 15, 2010

Heiress glitters, outwits Jew in golden 'Venice' by Elisabeth Vincentelli

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…

SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:01PM[SHARE]

Onstage, not his old 'Elf' by Elisabeth Vincentelli

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 …

SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:01PM[SHARE]
Friday, November 12, 2010

He holds his own by Elisabeth Vincentelli

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 …

SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:35AM[SHARE]
Thursday, November 11, 2010

Kicking & beaming by Elisabeth Vincentelli

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…

SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:19PM[SHARE]

Don't join this 'Revolution' by Elisabeth Vincentelli

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…

SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:50AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Stand-up won't make history 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 …

SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:08PM[SHARE]

All that Chat