955 stories by "Jesse Green"
Stories evolve. But a recent review proved to a theater critic that people can change even more.
Making a blistering Broadway debut, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's 2014 play about the legacies of hatred feels like a new work entirely.
A new Off Broadway musical adds the thrill of intimacy and the weight of history to the Cuban songs popularized on a 1997 album.
A musical about seven autistic young adults, played by seven autistic young actors, breaks new ground on Broadway.
Jen Silverman's noir play considers the role of artists in the making of propaganda.
A promising Off Broadway jukebox musical features hits by the R&B star (including "Fallin'," "If I Ain't Got You" and "No One") and a story much like her own.
In the first Broadway revival of the Monty Python musical, the old bits are verbatim but the clowns are running the circus.
The transcendent Dianne Wiest stars in an absurd yet poignant new play about a 75-year-old woman who sets out to be a star.
The pop star of the 1970s and '80s crosses over to musical theater with a dark story about pop stars of the 1920s and '30s.
Danny DeVito returns to Broadway in a Theresa Rebeck comedy about a lonely old man lost in a houseful of junk.
Joey is still a heel in this major revision of the 1940 antihero musical, but he's now a Black artist trying to find his true voice.
A story considered too dark for Broadway in its time is too much of a patchwork in ours.
David Adjmi's riveting new play, with songs by Will Butler, is about a '70s band that nearly destroys itself making an epochal album.
This inventive, beguiling and not quite fully solved puzzle of a show is a worthy and loving farewell to the great musical dramatist.
The history of movable type is a terrible idea for a show. Which is why it's so on brand for this satire of theater and its eternal hopefuls.
Jonathan Groff, supported by Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez, is thrillingly fierce in the first convincing revival of the cult flop Sondheim musical.
Jocelyn Bioh's Broadway playwriting debut, set in a Harlem hair braiding shop, is a hot and hilarious workplace sitcom.
Ossie Davis's 1961 play is no period piece, as a blazing and hilarious revival starring Leslie Odom Jr. testifies.
In Donald Margulies's heavy-handed new play, Reed Birney is terrific as a farmer forced by his wife, played by Karen Allen, to face his grief.
Rebecca Gilman's play, set in a rural farmhouse, sees an image of the decline of Americans' interdependence in the death of wildflowers.
Illness is no metaphor, and neither is pleasure, in Annie Baker's weird and great new play set at a fasting clinic.
Remaking a vintage musical for the 2020s takes guts, sensitivity and perhaps a medium.
Remaking a vintage musical for the 2020s takes guts, sensitivity and perhaps a medium.
A joyful, bumpy musical version of Shakespeare's late romance closes the Delacorte Theater before an 18-month renovation.
A smash, a romp, a mess and a mystery are part of this Ontario festival's 12-play repertoire after two seasons of retrenchment.
