{"id":16757,"date":"2021-03-08T09:52:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T14:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/?page_id=16757"},"modified":"2021-03-08T09:52:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T14:52:11","slug":"elysa-gardner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/news\/guest-speakers\/elysa-gardner\/","title":{"rendered":"Elysa Gardner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/artsadmin\/files\/2021\/03\/elysa-gardner.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"494\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16758 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/files\/2021\/03\/elysa-gardner.png 500w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/files\/2021\/03\/elysa-gardner-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elysa Gardner, formerly the theater and music critic for\u00a0<em>USA Today<\/em>, has at various points been a regular contributor to\u00a0<em>The New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0,\u00a0<em>Rolling Stone<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Los Angeles Times<\/em>\u00a0and VH1. She currently covers cabaret for\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>, and her writing has also appeared in\u00a0<em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Spin<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Vibe<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Town &amp; Country<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Out<\/em>,\u00a0<em>American Theatre<\/em>\u00a0and other publications. She is a critic for\u00a0<em>New York Stage Review<\/em>\u00a0and hosts the podcasts &#8220;Develop Your Character&#8221; for Camp Broadway and \u201cStage Door Sessions\u201d for Broadway Direct.<\/p>\n<p>Book credits include\u00a0<em>U2: The Rolling Stone Files<\/em>, for which she wrote the introduction, and a chapter on Taylor Swift in\u00a0<em>Woman Walk The Line, <\/em>as well as an upcoming book about the creation and legacy of the musical <em>Pippin<\/em>.\u00a0Elysa has served on the Pulitzer Prize drama jury twice, most recently (in 2017) as chair, and is a board member of the Drama Desk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elysa Gardner, formerly the theater and music critic for\u00a0USA Today, has at various points been a regular contributor to\u00a0The New Yorker\u00a0,\u00a0Rolling Stone,\u00a0The Los Angeles Times\u00a0and VH1. She currently covers cabaret for\u00a0The New York Times, and her writing has also appeared in\u00a0Entertainment Weekly,\u00a0Spin,\u00a0Vibe,\u00a0Billboard,\u00a0Town &amp; Country,\u00a0Out,\u00a0American Theatre\u00a0and other publications. She is a critic for\u00a0New York Stage Review\u00a0and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18835,"featured_media":0,"parent":10456,"menu_order":18,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18835"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16759,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16757\/revisions\/16759"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}