955 stories by "Jesse Green"
A genre of plays has emerged in which the characters and events are real — even when the dialogue isn’t.
As portrayed in shows like "Smash," "Slings & Arrows" and "American Classic," life onstage is a grab-bag of archetypes both hilariously wrong and a little bit right.
The taboo-busting, gasp-inducing Broadway musical comedy has been a hit with audiences and critics. But could it be produced today?
Is there anyone John Lithgow can't " or won't " play?
TikTok is the new home for musical theater fans who want to put themselves in the action. Viral re-enactments of four big numbers show why.
Broadway, Hollywood and television have been kind to Marc Shaiman. But there's a reason the subtitle of his new memoir is "Showbiz Stories From a Sore Winner."
A Black Hedda Gabler on film and a white Korean robot onstage are sending mixed signals about the status of cultural diversity and representation.
The new Lorenz Hart biopic "Blue Moon" gets a lot right about the creation of musicals that a spate of 1940s films got wildly wrong.
At this year's Stratford Festival, kings, orphans and even a coffee shop have a message for their neighbors to the south.
The slinky jailbirds and Broadway hopefuls in these two classic shows have been fighting it out since 1975.
Drawing on her own experience as an arts journalist, Charlotte Runcie comically skewers bad men, bad faith and (unforgivably) bad theater.
Thornton Wilder's play became a blockbuster musical, but a production under an upstate tent makes the case for its stand-alone virtues.
Our critic picked 10 moments that tapped into a range of emotions, often all at once.
Despite a gorgeous score and some fine performances, the musical adaptation of the Madeleine L'Engle classic gets trapped in a time loop.
In an Off Broadway play, young men on a high school debate team prepare to argue an uncomfortable case.
The Off Broadway play "Prince Faggot" aims to shock. But the real surprise is how good it is anyway.
The "Hacks" star returns to Broadway after 25 years in a triumph for her, if not for the old-fashioned, flowery play about spouse abuse.
In an Off Broadway play, the former Jim Halpert of Dunder Mifflin dives into a darker world of male grievance.
Our critic listened to the cast recordings of all the nominated musicals and picked one of his favorite tracks from each.
Amber Iman lives up to the title of a musical about the divine gift of song.
Liev Schreiber stars in an update of the bleak Strindberg classic about a husband and wife and the man who seeks to destroy them.
Our chief theater critic looks at this year's nominees and weighs in on the plays, musicals and artists he thinks will " and should " take home trophies on June 8.
A new play about a middle-age professor and his teenage student forces you to ask: Who's grooming whom?
When James Joyce's masterpiece faced banning, the American justice system came to the rescue. A new play wonders if it would today.
An awkward Encores! revival of the 1953 musical celebrates the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in the years when oddballs could still afford to live there.
