960 stories by "Jesse Green"
Gay dads and their "woke genius" daughter face the limitations of life in a patchy new play by Jeff Augustin.
Brian Cox plays Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of his powers, when history decided to bring him down.
A new work from one of the indisputably great directors is partly a tribute to theater and partly a warning about theatricality.
As a work of high drama, Jesse Green writes, the Trump-Zelensky script lacks stagecraft and subtlety.
Florian Zeller's tiresome new play features Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins as a long-married couple, one of whom may be dead.
In 'runboyrun' and 'In Old Age,' the latest installments of Mfoniso Udofia's nine-play cycle, America is no place to hide from the past.
The epicenter of New York's AIDS epidemic, St. Vincent's (1849-2010) is the subject of a memorial service that's also a play.
A new play argues that no one knows more about Shakespeare's great tragedy than a man "born black in America."
Seven of this season's Broadway and Off Broadway shows come from an eight-week theatrical powerhouse in Williamstown, Mass.
A new musical about a Filipino faith healer bringing "psychic surgery" to America expands the frontiers of the form.
With shrewd casting and amateur performers joining professionals onstage, a middling 1997 animated Disney musical becomes a pageant of civic engagement.
Bess Wohl's daring, mysterious new play is a comedy of underparenting and a tragedy of selfishness. Or is it the other way around?
A sumptuous Ibsen revival starring Uma Thurman and a knockout premiere by Adam Bock close the Williamstown season with a metaphysical "boo!"
As a lowly apprentice on a notorious flop, I got to see how the "Dark Prince" achieved his effects and cut his losses.
Better known for its classics, the Stratford Festival has long presented fine-tuned versions of Broadway musicals. This year: "Billy Elliot" and "Little Shop of Horrors."
A follow-up to the startling and divisive "Nanette" is just as startling and probably just as divisive.
An Encores! Off-Center revival reveals the tantalizing cleverness and intractable faults of the 1997 (and 1999, 2003, 2004 and 2008) musical.
Annie Golden stars in a musical B-movie pastiche that lands in the gap between tribute and spoof.
This season's wide-ranging offerings, including Shakespeare and "Little Shop of Horrors," reveal the surprising root of our longest-lasting stories.
Halley Feiffer's "Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow" turns the master's refined Russians into "Mean Girls."
How did a lush throwback like "People Will Say We're in Love" become the lean, sexy, countrified number being sung today? Follow along as we break it down.
How did a lush throwback like "People Will Say We're in Love" become the lean, sexy, countrified number being sung today? Follow along as we break it down.
A new work " and revivals of a classic play and musical " are having a conversation about different kinds of incarceration.
In a memory play with songs, the monologuist David Cale recreates the chaos of his youth in a rough town and a violent home.
The world premiere "kung fu musical" at the Shed isn't much of either.
