Elisabeth Vincentelli

Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now

Underrated movie. I wrote about it in my sci-fi column last year: www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/m...

Shout-out to to WRSU, where I spent many happy hours behind the mic.

It's pretty bad. Someone please remember that the space bar exists!

Inside Cabaret: the West End triumph that couldn’t make i... In London, Rebecca Frecknall’s extravaganza has been a one-in-a-generation theatrical success, playing a record 1,500 shows. But is the party over across...

"Cabaret" is a hit in London and a failure in NYC: did American audiences just not grasp the radical, transgressive power of a Sally Bowles in Doc Martens — a flourish we hicks had never seen before in a period piece, except in hundreds of shows? observer.co.uk/culture/thea...

Would need to see the wine list, which apparently has a wide selection from the island, but disappointed that the food at new restaurant Ofcorsica is basically Italian: ofcorsicanyc.com/pages/menu

I do not have an answer to that!

Whitney White The busy director talks "Saturday Church" and ""Liberation," her love for Shakespeare and the importance of a wide-ranging education

Busy director Whitney White dropped by to talk shop on the podcast. Catch "Saturday Church" at NY Theater Workshop now, then head to Broadway for "Liberation" in a couple of weeks. marksvincentelli.substack.com/p/whitney-wh...

This Subversive Comedian’s Stage Shows Are Her Clowning Glory

I wrote about Natalie Palamides, whose show "Weer" is at the Cherry Lane Theater: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/t...

Eerie post to read now! (I agree with your take.)

I wish I could like this a thousand times.

Didn’t something similar happen at Atlantic Yards around Barclays Center, when the affordable housing that was part of the deal didn’t happen and the developer is in breach of the agreement?

He’s a master.

Jinkx Monsoon talks funny business Jinkx talks about the joys and challenges of performing in "Oh, Mary!" on Broadway

Jinkx Monsoon dropped by the podcast to talk about "Oh, Mary!" and we ended up with a masterclass about comedy acting. Yesss! marksvincentelli.substack.com/p/jinkx-mons...

"Visitors average eight hours in a theme park but only 10 to 15 minutes on rides." Same idea as an NFL game then, or standing in line for hours for a slice of pizza you saw on TikTok. America is about waiting for something you've been conditioned to pre-enjoy. www.msn.com/en-us/travel...

Une Fois Mais Pas Deux - instrumental, by Brigitte Fontaine from the album Brigitte Fontaine Est Folle - Special Edition

Brigitte Fontaine's classic 1968 album "Brigitte Fontaine est folle" is getting the deluxe reissue treatment and this instrumental is absolutely sublime: wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/track/une-fo...

Follow-up: this is the most abject NY Liberty performance in years.

When theater and the WNBA collide: Nikki L. James sang the anthem at the Liberty playoff game at Barclays tonight. Love this Venn diagram!

And that's why this play still works!

And it is not easy to write.

‘Art’ Review: Three Big-Name Actors, One White Canvas

Yasmina Reza's "Art" (technically "'Art'") is aging better than I expected. As for the current Broadway production…read on. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/t...

I agree with that reading; at the same time the concept frustrates me from storytelling and characterization perspectives!

I think I’d have the same issues w/out being an Alien fan: the show tries to have its cake and eat it too by having protagonists with the “innocence” of children but adult bodies. So we end up with childish reactions to complicated situations. And no adult human able to resist Boy Kavalier’s pull.

I have very mixed feelings about the series (which I'm watching closely, as a longtime fan of this particular franchise) but you nail its single most interesting angle. I'm surprised I haven't seen more analysis of the show being de facto part of the Jurassic Park world, too.

The Strange World Of… Saint Etienne | The Quietus In the April 1993 issue of Select (a key text in the run-up to Britpop) the first band interviewed in its famous ‘Yanks Go Home’ feature wasn’t its cover stars, Suede. It was Saint Etienne, a trio nam...

“Britpop’s best foundational band. From day one – in the post-perestroika summer of Italia 90 – their approach to music, lyrics, and films has always crossed borders, been open-minded, and kept time-travelling.” Thank you Jude Rogers. thequietus.com/interviews/s...

We laughed nonstop with Jeff Hiller. Where do you know him from? Everything funny —including his new memoir. The star of HBO's "Somebody, Somewhere" talks about the joys and struggles of the acting life, about defying expectations, and how he wrote about it all in his new, guffaw-inducing autobiography.

Jeff Hiller just won an Emmy for "Somebody Somewhere"! Of course he talked about the show — and a lot more — when was was a guest on our podcast marksvincentelli.substack.com/p/jeff-hille...

Looking at @skiutah-cambot.bsky.social and wondering “how much longer?”

Reading this on the subway as three different people are playing videos on their phones at top volume.

Are results similar for Pfizer and Moderna shots?

How a Musical Put House, Gospel and ‘Noisy Singers’ Together

House is in the house! My piece on “Saturday Church,” part of the NY Times’ Fall Preview: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/t...

Ibsen often does both, eg “An Enemy of the People”