ELYSA GARDNER
Ms. Gardner has written about theater and music for The New York Times, The…
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Is ‘Suffs: The Musical’ Worthy of All the Hype?
The Broadway production offers more character than its ‘Hamilton’-like predecessor, but still doesn’t quite fulfill its weighty ambitions.
There’s No Place Like Broadway: Revival of ‘The Wiz’ Arrives at a Busy Time for Musical Theater
Part of what makes this ‘Wiz’ appealing, especially right now, is that it doesn’t ask you to admire its social relevance — which was considerable when it had its premiere five decades ago.
With ‘Sally & Tom,’ Suzan-Lori Parks Tackles American History, Adding Plenty of Context
If you haven’t guessed yet, her new work was inspired by the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, the enslaved woman he took as his mistress and kept with him until his death some 30 years later.
A New Broadway Musical, ‘Lempicka,’ Offers Opportunity To Get To Know an Art Deco Icon
The titular artist, Tamara de Lempicka, is cursed to live in interesting times, fleeing both revolutionary Russia and Hitler-era Europe, and is burdened with the additional challenges of being a woman, and bisexual.
Fans of ‘The Outsiders’ May Want To Pause Before Shelling Out for the Broadway Production
The attractive, charismatic actors revisiting this long-beloved account of youthful class warfare are saddled with a book and score that, weighed down by a plodding earnestness, seldom offer the sense of transcendence that such tales require.
Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ Gets a New Spin Courtesy of a British Playwright and Director, Zinnie Harris
If Harris is trying to argue that powerful women are misunderstood, the cruelty her female characters show toward each other would seem to constitute a curious strategy. ‘Macbeth (an undoing)’ nonetheless sustains a bleak charm.
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