955 stories by "Jesse Green"
Not for decades have so many plays and musicals been turned into movies. But even in the best of the new crop, a lot gets lost in translation.
In Heather Christian's "I Am Sending You the Sacred Face," the saint of Calcutta vogues and lip-syncs and broods on the nature of selflessness.
In his latest magic show, Helder Guimarães shuffles an old genre into a new technology with mixed results.
Nine months covering a devastated art form have changed one critic's habits, and tastes.
Serious new plays are always in danger of disappearing " never more so than now. But inventive virtual productions, such as "The Wolves" and "Heroes of the Fourth Turning," offer hope.
Audra McDonald stars as Blanche DuBois in a radio-like production of the Tennessee Williams classic that still has a way to go.
The astonishing Jefferson Mays stars as everyone (and a potato) in a dark and pointed adaptation of the Dickens holiday classic.
They're attractive, young and tech savvy, but their 24 hours don't add up to much.
Four new shows are part of a movement to engage more directly in the debates of our times " sometimes even stealing the script.
Would you like to see a new musical from the people who brought you "West Side Story"? For better or worse, you probably never will.
The story of a marriage saved by the pandemic, "True Love Will Find You in the End" features a live audience but recorded actors.
A trenchant workplace comedy about the folks who tried to promote Pizzagate, confuse Wisconsin and, ultimately, elect Donald J. Trump.
Anne Washburn's would-be epic of power and powerlessness, presented as a podcast, may be too close to current events to fulfill its big ambitions.
The nominators did the best they could with a Broadway slate hobbled by Covid-19. But some of the Tonys' problems predate (and will outlast) the pandemic.
In a new show by David Kwong, the noted cruciverbalist offers a collection of games built for Zoom that let the audience be part of the puzzle.
From a pro-slavery Martha Washington to a blank-screen Melania Trump, the wives and other women of the U.S. presidents get sent up and dressed down.
A starry selection of scenes from Tony Kushner's 1993 classic discovers premonitions of another pandemic in the AIDS-era play.
One-woman plays by Tracy Thorne and Eliza Bent explore the problems of white power and privilege " and how people who say the right things aren't helping.
A musical about two French chocolatiers may satisfy the hunger for live song and dance, but keep the insulin handy.
Stephen Karam's celebrated play about economic distress looks very different in 2020 than it did in 2015 " and streaming is only part of the change.
That package in your hallway may be an exciting new theatrical experience. Or maybe not.
The "Fleabag" star Andrew Scott is the entire brilliant cast of a penetrating play about toxic fathers and sons.
The actors quarantined together all summer to produce Shakespeare's tragedy safely. But they can't overcome the remove of a camera.
Theater for One was built on the idea of face-to-face encounters. Moving it online could have been a disaster, but instead it's a heartbreaker.
A collection of short solo works from the Weston Playhouse furthers the redefinition of theater online " and of life in isolation.
