955 stories by "Jesse Green"
Canada's renowned repertory theater shows off a versatile troupe of actors in plays as varied as "Timon of Athens" and "Guys and Dolls."
The impish provocateur makes his Broadway debut in a show that's less post-traumatic Trump therapy than self-aggrandizing autobiography.
An Encores! Off-Center production of this 1980 musical by Maurice Sendak and Carole King shows how far the story has strayed from the dour books it is based on.
If you knew what your life would hold, would you try to change it? And could you succeed? Bruce Norris's new play answers, "Maybe" and "Not much."
Don't look for politicians in the Public Theater's second Central Park production this season " or real tears. Be glad for the comedy.
Kirsten Childs's 2000 musical about internalized racism gets a playful, poignant production at Encores! Off-Center.
In Mohammad Al Attar's new play, a 20-something Syrian is beaten nearly to death. Will his family and friends (and his country) ever recover?
In the Encores Off-Center revival of the 1991 Sondheim-Weidman musical, men and women who have shot American presidents get to sing. Will anyone listen?
All 13 of last season's new Broadway shows, plus two revivals, produced cast recordings. Here's our critic's take on what to play and what to skip.
Ins Choi's story of a Toronto store and the Korean immigrant family that runs it is at Pershing Square Signature Center.
Two outstanding performances in a "Children of a Lesser God" revival are a Berkshires highlight.
It's politics as unusual on stages across the city in July.
Scott McPherson's 1991 Off Broadway hit about duty to self and to others makes its Broadway debut in a very different world.
In Meghan Kennedy's kitchen-table drama at the Roundabout, an immigrant Italian family in 1960 seems ready to explode. Then it does.
Thrilling argument and a strong American debut make a sometime-strange play soar despite some silliness at Theater for a New Audience.
Horton Foote's 1954 drama of repression is given an affectionate if muddy revival.
At Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, a one-man show about the crusading liberal lawyer defies all of Mr. Spacey's efforts to bring it to engaging life.
The assassination of a Trumplike figure in the Public Theater's production of "Julius Caesar" is already revving up outrage.
What if Mark Twain's fictional slave Jim wasn't fictional? What if his descendants included a righteously angry Afro-Futurist artist?
John and Ani have disabilities. Jess and Eddie do not. But in Martyna Majok's gripping new play, all four are constrained by circumstances.
Mr. Perry has written "The End of Longing," in which he also stars, and he'll be there for you when the drinks start to pour.
The bohemians and aristocrats are gathered in the Sussex countryside in 1914. Guess who's crashing the party?
A new musical explores the ancient (and continuing) Afghan practice of bacha bazi, the sale of boys to wealthy men.
Martial law, then impeachment. Robert Schenkkan's new future-history play is red meat for blue states.
In Gina Gionfriddo's new play, a college graduate working off a catastrophic debt and a working-class single mother both aim to become upwardly mobile.
