955 stories by "Jesse Green"
With broad winks to Agatha Christie and the limitations of remote theater, a serialized song-and-dance mystery goes on. Well, not so much dance.
Expanding content and experimenting with form, the avant-garde finds a congenial new home online, as two recent offerings demonstrate.
In "The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy," an experimental theater lab operating from a closet adapts a timely tale about the solitude of cramped quarters.
Eight short plays take cues from the 1930 Noël Coward comedy " but now the stakes are different.
Not so long ago, top stars brought top musicals to suburban arenas that started their lives as tents.
A documentary play based on interviews with New York doctors, nurses and paramedics underlines the inequities of a medical system "flawed from its root."
The British government has promised $2 billion to save its cultural institutions, while the American theater, lacking meaningful leadership, is left to fend for itself.
Richard Nelson's fictional family returns, but for the first time this drama of connection in the age of American bewilderment feels smaller than life.
A streaming production of the Molière comedy, with allusions to the White House as well as Black Lives Matter, tears down walls to rebuild a classic.
An Atlanta theater company addresses racial inequity in a series of virtual dinners that mix drama with discussion.
On the stage and on the page, his fury was fueled by an often-cloaked belief in the power of love.
One of the country's most racially diverse cities struggles, nicely, with representation and inclusion on its many bustling stages.
Let's not underrate Stephen Sondheim any longer: Theater's greatest songwriter is also one of theater's greatest playwrights. Here's why.
What do Korean divers and Manhattan playwrights have in common? A new play looks for the connection.
Richard Greenberg's overstuffed new play about family feuds and ethical choices turns a wedding comedy into a crisis.
Young Jean Lee offers upbeat tunes about downbeat lives and inevitable ends.
A cold case. An amateur sleuth. A new clue. But sometimes the murder isn't the real mystery.
With this season promising so many revivals and touring productions, our critic wonders whether it's possible for audiences to treat them as exciting arrivals.
Charles Busch's mash-up of mother-love weepies finds both pathos and hilarity in the tough talk of Hollywood divas.
Bess Wohl's new play puts a Neil Simonesque spin on the story of a couple considering divorce after 50 years.
The Broadway premiere of Charles Fuller's 1981 drama finds premonitions of today in the story of a 1944 murder.
Kathryn Hunter stars as the fabulously rich Greek who understands the corrupting value of money only after she loses it.
Music (and eventually emotion) cuts through the alienating layers of abstraction in this new work by the musician-storytellers James & Jerome.
Two productions at the Under the Radar Festival ask if the theater is ready to embrace the artistry of autism and other once disqualifying conditions.
Four recent works put plays and the people who make them in a weird spotlight.
