955 stories by "Jesse Green"
Michael R. Jackson's wild new musical satire is packed with a thesis' worth of insight about fate and representation.
A countrified musical about corn, and filled with it, too, transplants itself to Broadway, with songs by Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally.
The 96-year-old composer of "Chicago" and "Cabaret" is making a brand-new start of it with "New York, New York," his 16th Broadway musical.
Sondheim's masterpiece, restored to its proper size and sung to the hilt by Josh Groban, makes a welcome Broadway return.
Andrew Lloyd Webber hopes to extend an unbroken 43-year streak on Broadway. But his 13th new musical may not be the charm.
A revival of the 1978 dancical has been substantially revamped to argue for Bob Fosse's pure dance cred. It's a joy anyway.
A revival of the 1978 dancical has been substantially revamped to argue for Bob Fosse's pure dance cred. It's a joy anyway.
Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond star in a timely and gorgeously sung Broadway revival of the 1998 musical about the Leo Frank case.
A stage adaptation of the 1972 movie about a Jamaican singer turned outlaw hero sounds great but falls hard at the Public Theater.
Jamie Lloyd's compelling, surgically precise revival of Ibsen's 1879 drama throbs like an episode of "CSI: Norway."
Alexander Zeldin's heartbreaking play set in a temporary housing facility retunes our attention from the big picture to the small accommodations.
Parker Posey stars in "The Seagull/Woodstock, NY," as Chekhov comes to the Catskills.
Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan star as Village bohemians in a rare revival of Lorraine Hansberry's indictment of liberal inertia.
An early play by Samuel D. Hunter finds the author developing his voice by lending it to the lost souls working at an Idaho Hobby Lobby.
In upcoming musical revivals, world leaders both real (Imelda Marcos, Eva Perón) and folkloric (King Arthur) get an image makeover they may not deserve.
Anna Ziegler's play about an Orthodox couple in the 1970s and an unorthodox one in the 2010s explores the limits of longing.
In a stage adaptation of Larry Sultan's photo memoir, Nathan Lane stars as the father everyone's aiming at.
From "A Strange Loop" to "Funny Girl," most Broadway musicals of 2022 were recorded, offering listeners a chance to love or hate them again.
In recent shows, ideas of gayness are expanding, combining and disappearing all at once.
Stephen Adly Guirgis's 2014 play finally comes to Broadway, its hilarious, loving and unvarnished vision of the universal human hustle intact.
Maria Friedman's rethinking of the much-loved, much-monkeyed-with 1981 Sondheim-Furth flop gets very close to coherence, and all the way to enjoyable.
A Broadway musical version of the Billy Wilder film finds exhilarating new ways to make the gender comedy sing.
Audra McDonald stars in Adrienne Kennedy's 1991 play about the worst imaginable crime and the world that made it inevitable.
The worldwide sensation and American-style musical theater form an awkward alliance onstage.
Shakespeare's tragedy becomes a girl-power romp in a cotton candy jukebox musical, featuring songs by the Swedish hitmaker Max Martin.
