It’s Snow White and her dwarves as Disney has never shown them — demented...
NEW YORK — Madonna said there were days she was exhausted during her...
This lovable doggie can walk you all the way to “Sesame Street.”...
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has slimmed down after his belly-band...
Rosie O’Donnell was supposed to appear onstage with Madonna after a star...
Qatar’s filthy-rich prime minister has scooped up a palatial Beekman Place...
Kate Upton and Cameron Diaz shared a Cuban feast at Victor’s Café on...
Jane Lynch — who’s starring as baddie Miss Hannigan in “Annie” on Broadway...
ATLANTA — There would be no time for babying, for coddling, for pampering....
The moons have aligned in such a way that the Yankees need to get Alex...
MIAMI — There is going to be a seventh game in South Beach after last night...
ATLANTA — Call it a landslide Super Tuesday victory for a franchise in...
‘MAN of Steel,” “Wolverine”. . . every superhero needs an origins movie....
Flash some razzle and dazzle like the characters in ‘The Bling...
Last Friday at 8 a.m., a line of 20- and 30-somethings stretched down an...
A contemporary take on a classic horror story blossomed into an evening of...
Elisabeth Vincentelli joined the New York Post as theater critic in February 2009. She previously was arts and entertainment editor at Time Out New York. In the past she's also contributed to publications such as The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, The Believer, Slate and Salon. She lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
You can’t accuse the cast of “The Comedy of Errors” of holding back. Everybody on the Delacorte stage, where this new Shakespeare in the Park production opened last night, exerts themselves mightily, trying to be zany.... June 19, 2013
From TheaterGreg and Alex are a happily married Manhattan couple with a 4-year-old son. Jake is smart, creative — and he loves pretending to be a princess. “We’ve got seven different Cinderella DVDs,” Alex (Carla Gugino) reminds... June 18, 2013
From Theater‘roadkill” is a fantastic theatrical experience, one you’re unlikely to forget. It also happens to be the feel-bad show of the year. The heavy subject — sex trafficking — is disturbing enough. But director Cora Bissett... June 17, 2013
From TheaterThe most popular young-adult novels these days — “The Hunger Games,” “The 5th Wave” — feature hotties entangled in love triangles while trying to survive in a dystopian, dangerous world. Now comes “Venice” — same idea,... June 14, 2013
From TheaterIt’s hard to pin down “A Picture of Autumn”: You can see it as either a funny drama or the most depressing comedy of the season. Above all, the show that opened off-Broadway Monday night is an intriguing nugget.... June 13, 2013
From TheaterThe best sits right next to the worst in “3 Kinds of Exile,” the new project by John Guare. The show is made up of three distinct works that share a theme — the experiences of a trio of Eastern European émigrés — but... June 12, 2013
From TheaterWith plays like “Fat Pig” and movies like “In the Company of Men,” Neil LaBute made a career out of antagonizing audiences. His usual MO is to expose our baser instincts by throwing unpleasant people into unpleasant... June 12, 2013
From TheaterThere’s something to be said about typecasting. What’s wrong with an actor zeroing in on a type and playing brilliant variations on that theme? Nobody accuses a violin virtuoso of not playing the piano well. Jane Lynch... June 07, 2013
From TheaterThere are two or three good plays fighting it out within “The Tutors.” But they cancel each other out, and the show that opened last night at Second Stage Uptown ends up merely promising, rather than fully satisfying.... June 06, 2013
From TheaterLike old-fashioned dramas, the new “Somewhere Fun” is staged in three acts with two intermissions. It also boasts two charismatic powerhouses in the leads: Kathleen Chalfant and Kate Mulgrew — the first best known for... June 05, 2013
From TheaterYou can see why theater companies are drawn to “The Caucasian Chalk Circle”: Writing at the end of WWII, Bertolt Brecht brought together elements from an old Chinese tale and the Judgment of Solomon, mixing humor and... May 31, 2013
From TheaterOh no, not another immersive, sung-through rock musical! But “Murder Ballad” first opened at Manhattan Theatre Club last fall, the same time the Russian-inflected “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” had its... May 23, 2013
From TheaterOne of the things that makes Broadway star Laura Benanti so much fun to watch is the discrepancy between her unassuming behavior and what happens when she starts singing. Benanti is one of those gorgeous women — those... May 22, 2013
From TheaterA midlife crisis has devastating consequences in “The Master Builder.” This should surprise no one since the 1892 play is by Henrik Ibsen, a Norwegian not known for rom-coms. But the production that opened last night at... May 21, 2013
From TheaterThe program for “Colin Quinn Unconstitutional” claims the show is “a new comedy.” That’s a bit misleading. Sure, there’s a director (Rebecca A. Trent) and basic staging: a lectern, a kind of balcony for important... May 17, 2013
From TheaterLast fall’s most exciting sensation wasn’t a big Broadway musical but a scrappy outsider sneaking in under the radar. At first glance, “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” looked like it had little chance to... May 17, 2013
From TheaterNomi Malone is back! In the 1995 camp classic “Showgirls,” Elizabeth Berkley’s psycho stripper climbed to the topless top of the Strip. Now at long last, Nomi’s made her way to a pole near us in “Showgirls! The Musical!... May 15, 2013
From TheaterImmersive and site-specific shows are hot right now, and “City Council Meeting” hits both of those sweet spots. Devised by Mallory Catlett, Jim Findlay and Aaron Landsman — all regulars on the New York experimental... May 14, 2013
From TheaterBroadway these days is specializing in famous people played by even more famous people: Tom Hanks as the tabloid columnist Mike McAlary, Bette Midler as super-agent Sue Mengers and Holland Taylor as Texas Gov. Ann... May 13, 2013
From TheaterThe last time Philip Seymour Hoffman teamed up with playwright Bob Glaudini, they scored an unlikely hit with 2007’s “Jack Goes Boating” — an affectionate depiction of so-called losers looking for love. Hoffman went on... May 13, 2013
From TheaterLife and showbiz got uncomfortably close in “Bunty Berman Presents . . .,” a likable but overlong new musical set in the demented world of Bollywood movies. As it happened, Erick Avari, the New Group production’s... May 10, 2013
From TheaterAccording to current conventional wisdom, 1936’s “On Your Toes” could never cut it again on Broadway. After all, it features a goofy fun plot, songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, and lots of dancing — including a... May 10, 2013
From TheaterThere’s no right or wrong way to approach “Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance).” Since the late 1960s, Richard Foreman has been creating cryptic, bizarre shows that can be compared only to the other shows he’s... May 08, 2013
From TheaterIt’s not fun being the newbie at a party where the other guests already know each other. You watch them chat about their jobs, laugh at old anecdotes, exchange updates about relationships — and you sit there wondering,... May 07, 2013
From TheaterDrag queens and female impersonators have always had a place in theater. Just look at this year’s Tonys, where several Best Actor nominees — Billy Porter in “Kinky Boots,” Bertie Carvel in “Matilda” and, though briefly,... May 06, 2013
From TheaterIn Mike Bartlett’s off-Broadway hit “Cock” — alternatively titled, for weaker hearts and newspapers, “The Cockfighting Play” — a man couldn’t make up his mind between his boyfriend and his female lover. Bartlett’s new... May 03, 2013
From TheaterThe Transport Group has had great success matching shows with unusual settings — placing the basketball musical “Lysistrata Jones” in an actual gym, letting the gay-male bitch-a-thon “The Boys in the Band” play out in a... May 01, 2013
From TheaterTalk about going out with a bang! Broadway’s ending its season with a sensational revival of “Pippin” — a thrilling piece of eye-popping razzle dazzle filled with daredevil acrobatics. Stephen Schwartz and Roger O.... April 26, 2013
From TheaterFor her first Broadway appearance since “Clams on the Half Shell” 38 years ago, Bette Midler split the difference between playing it safe and taking a risk. Instead of trotting out her hits — like her old accomplice... April 25, 2013
From TheaterFew shows are as deceptively simple as “The Trip to Bountiful.” Horton Foote’s play is about an elderly woman, Carrie Watts, who’s dead set on seeing her childhood home in Bountiful, Texas, one last time. So she gets on... April 24, 2013
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