ELYSA GARDNER
Ms. Gardner has written about theater and music for The New York Times, The…
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A Playwright With Many Acclaimed Works, Samuel D. Hunter, Finally Makes It to Broadway With ‘Little Bear Ridge Road’
Hunter possesses that rarest of gifts among creative artists: the ability to convey both great pain and genuine hope, in plays that can be shattering and heartwarming and bleakly, bitingly funny all at once.
‘Liberation’ Moves to Broadway at a Time of Perceived Setbacks for the Women’s Equity Movement
Since having its premiere at New York last February, Bess Wohl’s homage to second-wave feminism — inspired by the playwright’s late mother and like-minded women in the 1970s — has reaped wide acclaim.
After Turns in ‘Hairspray’ and ‘Legally Blonde,’ Singer and Actress Laura Bell Bundy Stars in Off-Broadway’s ‘Romy & Michele: The Musical’
She is cast as Romy White, a part introduced by Mira Sorvino in 1997’s ‘Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion.’ Her longtime bestie, Michele Weinberger, portrayed in the movie by Lisa Kudrow, is played here by Kara Lindsay.
Antisemitism Is Focus of ‘Playing Shylock’ as Well as Several New Off-Broadway Productions Tackling the Subject
The play shares its opening night at New York with a new presentation of ‘Hannah Senesh,’ based on the diaries and poems of a Hungarian-born woman who parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe as part of an effort to help her fellow Jews.
After Reaching Broadway’s Summit and Then Being Derailed, Ari’el Stachel Is Back With an Autobiographical One-Man Show, ‘Other’
What’s most refreshing about ‘Other’ is that Stachel doesn’t wallow in identity politics; to the contrary, he exposes their idiocy — not by preaching, but through first-hand, often amusing experience.
Oscar Winner Ethan Coen’s ‘Let’s Love!’ Repeatedly Reminds That Irreverence Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Cleverness
The key word in Atlantic Theater Company’s description of the comedy ‘that explores love in all its miserable glory’ is ‘miserable.’ Viewers may ask: Who are these people, and why should I care about them?
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