955 stories by "Jesse Green"
Our chief theater critic makes his picks.
A truly twisted yarn about a long-lived corpse makes a surprisingly feel-good Broadway musical.
Groff is sensational as the '60s "nightclub animal" in a Broadway bio-musical jukebox that doesn't live up to its star.
A Broadway remake of the operetta, starring David Hyde Pierce, moves the plot to the Big Easy, where good times roll, even if some jokes don't quite land.
"Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp," a new collection of one-acts by the great British playwright, is a cause for celebration, wonderment and grief.
Kimberly Belflower's play, on Broadway starring Sadie Sink, gives high school students a chance to prosecute a #MeToo case against "The Crucible."
En route to Broadway, the TV series about backstage shenanigans and Marilyn Monroe has been rejiggered, with the same great songs but a whole new plot.
Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga lead the festivities in a new Broadway revue of the great musical dramatist's work.
The composer and lyricist of "A New Brain," "Falsettos" and other shows answered the pains of life with jaunty songs. He died this week at 73.
The It girl with the spit curl looks great for 100, but her Broadway musical, which feels like one big merch grab, is boop-boop-a-don't.
Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren star in a muddy revival of Jason Robert Brown's still-scathing musical.
George Clooney makes Edward R. Murrow a saint of sane journalism for a world that still needs one in a stage adaptation of the 2005 movie.
Kieran Culkin, Bill Burr and Bob Odenkirk star in a bumpy revival of David Mamet's play about salesmen with nothing worth selling.
The "Succession" actress plays all 26 roles in this Oscar Wilde classic reimagined as a video spectacle. If only there were less screen time and more IRL contact.
Shakespeare's leanest tragedy gets a starry, headlong production that embraces the action but misses the mystery.
A proudly silly British musical comedy about the "Trojan corpse" of World War II comes to Broadway.
Playing all the characters in an update of Chekhov, the Irish actor turns what could be merely a stunt into a tour de force.
A family not unlike Jesse Jackson's gets barbecued on Broadway by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
Desire comes a distant second to violence in a Brooklyn revival of the Tennessee Williams classic.
Ibsen's scathing drama about medical and moral contagion gets a high-sheen Off Broadway staging starring a riveting Lily Rabe.
An Off Broadway play opens a window on the spiritual and physical trials of the ancient Japanese sport.
A story as old as Cain and Abel gets filtered through cellphone and video confrontations in Samuel D. Hunter's bleak two-hander.
Bess Wohl's moving new play, about a group of women in 1970s Ohio, explores the power of sisterhood and the limits of motherhood.
Act 1 was a constant struggle for rent and opportunity. But now that these emerging dramatists have emerged, what will they make of Act 2?
The "Wicked" belter scales a 300-foot tree, and a mountain of songs, in a powerful if woo-woo musical about trauma and resilience.
