955 stories by "Jesse Green"
A new musical imagines the invention of a decolorizing process. Will it save Black Americans from hatred or destroy them?
Sutton Foster also stars in this neat, perky, overly cautious Broadway revival of a musical that needs to be more of a con.
The Encores! series returns with a 1983 musical that, despite its pleasures, wasn't quite right then and isn't quite right now.
A new jukebox musical tells the story of Michael Jackson. Except for the big story.
Lynn Nottage's play about a Black woman in 1905 becomes an opera, with music by Ricky Ian Gordon, that forefronts voices ignored by history.
Dominique Morisseau's 2016 play, now on Broadway, is a swift, well-crafted look at factory workers trapped in an economic "dumpster fire."
The Eugene O'Neill classic, set in 1912, is just as powerful in Robert O'Hara's revival, set in our own age of disease and lockdown.
Excellent performances, including one by a well-behaved dog, warm up two experimental plays upstate.
Taking Lily Tomlin's roles in a revival of Jane Wagner's metaphysical comedy, the "Saturday Night Live" star is put through her paces.
In recent musicals, hyperdesign is outstripping writing and direction for clarity, expressiveness and excitement.
A new musical imagines the all-singing, all-dancing LSD trips of Aldous Huxley, Clare Boothe Luce and Cary Grant.
Bobby is now Bobbie in this confusing, sour remake of the 1970 musical by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth.
Victoria Clark stars in a playful yet powerful musical about a girl who is aging too fast among adults who behave like children.
With a childlike sense of discovery, Stephen Sondheim found the language to convey the beauty in harsh complexity.
In Lynn Nottage's bright new comedy, cooks at a greasy spoon dream of remaking the menu " and their lives.
Alice Childress's 1955 play about power and race in the theater is a satire and a tragedy that deserves to be a classic.
The tabloid press and the monarchy used the Princess of Wales for their own purposes, and now a new Broadway show does the same.
Jocelyn Bioh's new comedy about making movies in Nigeria throws some side-eye on Hollywood as well.
In this bizarrely cheery adaptation of the Academy Award-winning film, suicide among young gay people proves difficult to sing about.
A new play by Simon Stephens has hearty performances but a nearly undetectable pulse.
Anna Deavere Smith's one-woman play about the aftermath of the Rodney King case gets a cast of five in an updated Off Broadway revival.
An electrifying revival of the 2003 musical, featuring a titanic performance by Sharon D Clarke, follows the money to the source of American inequality.
Douglas Carter Beane's winky fantasia finds Pinocchio, Puck and other unlikely characters meeting cute in a storybook setting.
Deirdre O'Connell brilliantly lip-syncs the testimony of a woman abducted by a white supremacist in a play by Lucas Hnath.
Beneath the dry words of an F.B.I. interview, a new play unearths a world of interior terror.
