ELYSA GARDNER
Ms. Gardner has written about theater and music for The New York Times, The…
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The Tortured but Unbreakable Bond Between the Siblings in ‘The Brothers Size’ Speaks to the Challenges of Kinship and Love
Exuberant, witty dance moves contribute to the musicality of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s language — some lines are even sung — and help provide welcome comic relief.
A Designer Who Drew Inspiration From Violence and Despair, Alexander McQueen Is Subject of Off-Broadway’s ‘House of McQueen’
Director Sam Helfrich and his collaborators ensure that the play’s journey is as dazzling and as chilling as its subject no doubt would have wanted it to be.
Expect Numerous Broadway-Bred Luminaries To Be Treading the Boards This Fall
Here’s a brief rundown of what’s in store on Broadway this season, which will include appearances by Kristin Chenoweth, Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and more.
Plenty of Star Power Should Lift This Fall’s Off-Broadway Theater Season
New works by Ethan Coen, John Leguizamo, and a Pulitzer Prize winner, James Ijames, are on tap, along with a fresh revival of ‘The Baker’s Wife,’ a cult classic by the ‘Wicked’ composer/lyricist, Stephen Schwartz.
A Happy Place for Theater Lovers, Central Park’s Delacorte Theater Reopens With a Giddy New Production of ‘Twelfth Night’
Clocking in at just under two hours, with no intermission, the staging is helmed by Saheem Ali, who has guided such exuberantly entertaining Broadway outings as ‘Fat Ham’ and ‘Buena Vista Social Club.’
In ‘Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride,’ an Insult Comic Making His Broadway Debut Reaches for the Painful Roots of His Art
His life’s many sad developments are recalled in often exhaustive detail in what is fundamentally a valentine to Ross’s loved ones: friends and family, living and deceased — mostly the latter — and eventually fans.
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