Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center

Join us for an evening celebrating comedic force-of-nature Elaine May. A brilliant performer with the sensational duo Nichols and May, a pioneer of improvised comedy, and an iconoclastic Hollywood director, May has left an indelible mark on stage and screen. Elizabeth Alsop, professor of Film and Media Cultures at the CUNY Graduate Center, discusses her recent book on May’s cinema, offering insights into the four features May directed, from her auspicious debut, A New Leaf, to the infamous Ishtar. Philip Wiles, a doctoral student […]