955 stories by "Jesse Green"
Barrington Stage Company's revival of the 1998 musical brings vocal luster and newfound relevance to the story of a songwriter's near-death experience.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the theater, a play about the making of Hollywood's first summer blockbuster bobs up on Broadway.
"Candide" in an opera house. "Spamalot" and "Rent" cheek by jowl with Shakespeare. But treating them as classics may not be doing them justice.
The addition of 17 songs turns the 1985 sci-fi classic into a big "why?" musical with a big wow factor.
This peculiar early Shakespeare comedy gets updated with 10 songs for a youthful alfresco production.
Jason Alexander directs a Broadway farce that aims for the high style of Noël Coward but falls on its face instead.
A new Broadway musical tells the disturbing story of Imelda Marcos by putting her, and the audience, in a disco.
The Public Theater's alfresco production has plenty to offer audiences who know the play already. But it may not be so easy for newcomers.
Is it a stand-up act or a morality play? Either way, Alex Edelman's look at race, religion and the limits of empathy is at home on Broadway.
In lyrics of rare humor, elegance and compassion, the man who put words to "Fiddler on the Roof" and "She Loves Me" explored the complex emotional architecture of love.
A revival of the 1998 revisal of the 1966 musical highlights the stories of trans and nonbinary performers.
Robert Icke's surgery on a 1922 play about the disease of antisemitism turns it into a riveting debate about identity. But at what cost to the patient?
The writing is on the wall: With or without writers, the Broadway awards are a strangely bland and canned way to celebrate a thrillingly live medium.
Tori Sampson's look at the Black Panther movement is a warm sitcom that becomes a jarring inquest into a real murder.
In his haunting new play, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins updates the reunion genre with too much jungle juice and an otherworldly visitor.
A new play about a sisterhood of sorrows brings something scary to the stage, but is delivering shocks and icks enough?
Three new plays at theaters in Washington explore how the past is both erased and inescapable.
Mira Nair's 2001 movie about a couple brought together by their families becomes a song-filled pageant, with mixed results.
The Encores! production, directed by Lear deBessonet, looks to deepen and darken a musical that resists the change. But it's still delightful.
The "Will & Grace" star is unrecognizable in a Broadway biography of Oscar Levant: wit, pianist and "Eeyore in a cheap suit."
The "Killing Eve" star has a spectacular Broadway debut in a play that puts sexual assault jurisprudence on trial.
Larissa FastHorse's comedy of performative wokeness is also a brutal satire of American mythmaking.
Aerial mishaps and half-wit actors turn a fantasy classic into a farce. But, like Peter, not all of the jokes land.
A revival of the 1960 musical with the famously great score and infamously bad book gets a gorgeous makeover that makes no difference.
A modern gloss on "Hamlet" set at a backyard barbecue remakes the tragedy as a comedy, and as a challenge for today.
