256 stories by "Elysa Gardner"
★★★★ From Ireland, a tale of two (very different) tortured souls, and towering performances
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★★★ The holiday favorite returns to Madison Square Garden, with Gavin Lee as the titular grouch
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★★★★★ Aaron Sorkin and director Bartlett Sher reintroduce Harper Lee's beloved work as a play for our times, or any other
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★★★ Amy Heckerling brings unapologetic nostalgia and joy to a musical adaptation of her '90s film, featuring Disney star Dove Cameron
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It was easy to predict that a musical adaptation of Pretty Woman would find fans on Broadway. As producer and veteran film executive Paula Wagner points out, the 1990 movie, starring Julia R…
When the subject of a Broadway show is an icon of both music and fashion, it's vital that the piece be dazzling both visually and aurally. To ensure this was the case for The Cher Show, set …
Teenage outsiders have not traditionally been considered ripe fodder for musical theater " heightened emotions like those expressed in, say, West Side Story notwithstanding. Be More Chill, t…
★★★★ Director Conor Bagley pairs lovely, haunting accounts of innocence and experience by Brian Friel
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★★★★★ In Tom Stoppard's brilliant, moving new play, very smart people grapple with very big questions
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★★★★ Aleshea Harris's new play and "ritual" commemorates violence and a celebrates a community's resilience
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★★★ Broadway actors invade a Midwestern town to help a teenage lesbian, and themselves, in a new musical comedy helmed by Casey Nicholaw
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★★★★ Will Eno's early one-man play is revived, its brutality and beauty in tact.
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★★ A new, extravagant musical adaptation offers a feminist but emotionally exploitative take on the classic tale
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★★★★ Ming Peiffer charts the fraught, funny, frightful journey from female adolescence to womanhood in a stirring new play
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★★ Topical and vital concerns get mired in banality in the new play marking Kerry Washington's return to Broadway
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★★★★ Michael Urie shines in a condensed version of Harvey Fierstein's still-pertinent, piercing and accessible comedy
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★★★ The latest from Dear Evan Hansen playwright Steven Levenson follows young protesters in a divided nation
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★★ Two women separated by age and race find no common humanity in Eleanor Burgess's dispiriting new play
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★★★★★ Samuel D. Hunter surveys the America we still don't know well enough in his beautiful, haunting two-part play
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★★★★★ Glenn Close brings Joan of Arc's mother to radiant life in a luminous account of women's strength, and love
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★★★ Christian Borle directs two other facile funny men in a play by James Hindman.
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With "Homeland" about to end, he's released his first new albums in more than a decade, with a young pop-minded producer pushing him to take risks.
★★★★ Bill Irwin offers an exuberant homage to a master of bleakness
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★★★★★ Depression-era Minnesotans find no shelter from their storms in Conor McPherson's adaptation Bob Dylan's songs
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★★★ La Femme Theatre Productions offers a fittingly languid revival of a later, lesser-known Tennessee Williams play
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