ELYSA GARDNER
Ms. Gardner has written about theater and music for The New York Times, The…
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Audra McDonald Delivers a Show-Stopping Performance as Rose in New Revival of ‘Gypsy’
The triumph of this production is that its star and her equally venerated director, George C. Wolfe, turn potential liabilities into assets.
Theater Fans Had Much in Which To Delight in 2024, the Year of Second Chances
Numerous plays and musicals that had earned acclaim off-Broadway during the year’s early months — or in some cases in 2023, such as the Tony Award-winning ‘Stereophonic’ and ‘Job’ — received additional, often higher-profile productions.
Tumult Over Vaccines Bedevils a Well-Heeled Private School in the Whip-Smart ‘Eureka Day’
The pandemic hovers over this comedy like a storm cloud.
Expect ‘Cult of Love’ To Burnish Leslye Headland’s Already Impressive Reputation
For all the crackling sardonicism in Headland’s writing, her compassion is equally compelling, if not more so. Under Trip Cullman’s typically astute direction, all the characters in ‘Cult’ are funny and touching, and none are villains.
At Irish Rep, Six Singing Actors Serve Up a Scrumptious Seasonal Confection, ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’
Clocking in at a brisk 75 minutes, the adaptation of Dylan Thomas’s prose work incorporates a steady stream of traditional and other holiday tunes, including a few written by artistic director Charlotte Moore.
Puerto Rican Activists’ 1950 Assassination Attempt on President Truman Is at Center of Clever New Play, ‘The Beautiful Land I Seek’
Matthew Barbot’s one-act play, now being presented at the Puerto Rican Travelling Theater, is both farcical and sobering and displays an absurdist streak that only reinforces its political roots.
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