Elysa Gardner

4 days ago | nysun.com | Elysa Gardner

The press script for Donald Margulies’s latest play, “Lunar Eclipse,” includes a prominent photo of the playwright’s late father-in-law, George Street, to whom the work is dedicated. Mr. Margulies eulogizes Street, who died in 2010, with two words: “Farmer. Beloved.”One of the two characters in “Eclipse” is indeed named George, and is also a farmer, but for roughly the first half of this one-act piece, at least, he doesn’t come across as terribly lovable.

5 days ago | nysun.com | Elysa Gardner

No contemporary playwright has combined depth and whimsy more beguilingly than Sarah Ruhl. Drawing inspiration from sources as diverse as the Salem witch trials, Virginia Woolf, and Peter Pan, the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist has crafted playful, poignant works that find wonder in quotidian matters and, conversely, make the fantastical seem natural.

1 week ago | nysun.com | Elysa Gardner

On June 8, the 78th annual Tony Awards will air live from Radio City Music Hall. The nominators this year met a challenging task with aplomb, leaving out at least a few underwhelming performances and other contributions by marquee names and acknowledging less widely known talent. Selecting a single winner in each category will be even tougher, and the results, as always, will involve personal, professional, and political considerations.

1 week ago | broadwaydirect.com | Elysa Gardner

When director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell and composer David Foster recruited Jasmine Amy Rogers for a workshop of Boop! The Musical back in 2019, the then-fledgling performer was cast in a supporting role. But even at that time, Rogers imagined herself playing the title part, Betty Boop, a cartoon character from nearly a century ago brought to real life in the present day. “It just seemed like something that was up my alley,” Rogers remembers.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Elysa Gardner

The German-born cabaret performer's latest album celebrates the 125th anniversary of Kurt Weill's birth, yoking classics to the language of today's music. "Welcome to Weimar - to the year 2025," Ute Lemper announced. The German-born singer and actress was greeting friends and colleagues who had squeezed into the Birdsong Society's small headquarters by Gramercy Park to hear her perform songs from her latest album, which celebrates Kurt Weill, a composer Lemper has championed for four decades.