All stories by Jesse Green on BroadwayStars

Thursday, March 27, 2025

Review: ‘Picture of Dorian Gray,’ Starring Sarah Snook and 3 Million Pixels by Jesse Green

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.

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Monday, March 24, 2025

In ‘Othello,’ Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal Are Prey and Predator by Jesse Green

Shakespeare’s leanest tragedy gets a starry, headlong production that embraces the action but misses the mystery.

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Thursday, March 20, 2025

‘Operation Mincemeat’ Review: The Stiff Who Saved Europe by Jesse Green

A proudly silly British musical comedy about the “Trojan corpse” of World War II comes to Broadway.

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Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Review: Eight Andrew Scotts in a Heartbreaking Solo ‘Vanya’ by Jesse Green

Playing all the characters in an update of Chekhov, the Irish actor turns what could be merely a stunt into a tour de force.

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Monday, March 17, 2025

‘Purpose’ Review: Dinner With the Black Political Elite by Jesse Green

A family not unlike Jesse Jackson’s gets barbecued on Broadway by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

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Tuesday, March 11, 2025

A Ferocious Paul Mescal Stars in a Brutal ‘Streetcar’ by Jesse Green

Desire comes a distant second to violence in a Brooklyn revival of the Tennessee Williams classic.

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Monday, March 10, 2025

‘Ghosts’ Review: The Sins of the Father, Visited on Everyone by Jesse Green

Ibsen’s scathing drama about medical and moral contagion gets a high-sheen Off Broadway staging starring a riveting Lily Rabe.

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Wednesday, March 5, 2025

‘Sumo’ Review: Wrestling With Angels and Demons by Jesse Green

An Off Broadway play opens a window on the spiritual and physical trials of the ancient Japanese sport.

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Monday, February 24, 2025

‘Grangeville’ Review: Am I My Half Brother’s Keeper? by Jesse Green

A story as old as Cain and Abel gets filtered through cellphone and video confrontations in Samuel D. Hunter’s bleak two-hander.

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Thursday, February 20, 2025

Review: In ‘Liberation,’ the Feminist Revolution Will Be Dramatized by Jesse Green

Bess Wohl’s moving new play, about a group of women in 1970s Ohio, explores the power of sisterhood and the limits of motherhood.

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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

For Playwrights, Making It to Midcareer Is a Cliffhanger by Jesse Green

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?

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Thursday, February 13, 2025

Review: Idina Menzel Climbs to New Broadway Heights in ‘Redwood’ by Jesse Green

The “Wicked” belter scales a 300-foot tree, and a mountain of songs, in a powerful if woo-woo musical about trauma and resilience.

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Tuesday, February 4, 2025

‘The Antiquities’ Review: Relics of Late Human Life in 12 Exhibits by Jesse Green

According to Jordan Harrison’s museum piece of a play, we are long extinct by 2240. But the future has kept our Betamaxes.

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Monday, February 3, 2025

‘Schmigadoon!’ Review: An Affectionate Golden Age Schpoof by Jesse Green

The Apple TV+ series comes to the stage of the Kennedy Center with its snark and affection for classic Broadway musicals intact.

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Thursday, January 23, 2025

Review: In ‘English,’ Looking for a Language to Live In by Jesse Green

For the students in Sanaz Toossi’s dramedy about mother tongues and other tongues, the world’s lingua franca is not exactly free.

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Wednesday, January 15, 2025

In a ‘Show Boat’ Reboot, Ol’ Man River Gets an Extreme Makeover by Jesse Green

“Show/Boat: A River” reverses the racial lens on the great-grandfather of American musicals.

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Friday, January 10, 2025

‘Tammy Faye’ and ‘Cinderella’ Were Hits in London but Failed on Broadway by Jesse Green

What happened to “Sunset Boulevard,” “Back to the Future,” “Cinderella” and “Tammy Faye” when they crossed the Atlantic?

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Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Friday, December 20, 2024

Review: In ‘Gypsy,’ Audra McDonald’s Gonna Show It to Ya by Jesse Green

Hold your hats and hallelujah, our leading musical tragedienne offers an ultra-dramatic Rose in George C. Wolfe’s Broadway revival.

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Monday, December 16, 2024

Review: In ‘Eureka Day,’ Holding Space for Those You Hate by Jesse Green

A hilarious new Broadway production asks: Can the superwoke vaxxers and anti-vaxxers at an elite private school learn to get along?

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Thursday, December 12, 2024

‘Cult of Love’ Review: We Wish You a Wretched Christmas by Jesse Green

A hilarious, harrowing holiday gift from Leslye Headland, who brings another unhappy family to Broadway. Zachary Quinto and Shailene Woodley star.

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Monday, December 9, 2024

Best Theater of 2024 by Jesse Green

Broadway roared back, but the kitties were downtown and the prayer service was in Brooklyn.

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Thursday, November 21, 2024

Review: In ‘Death Becomes Her,’ Spiking the Fountain of Youth by Jesse Green

Hilarious star turns from Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard make the mostly unfunny 1992 film into an intermittently memorable Broadway musical.

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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

‘Swept Away’ Review: Lost at Sea, How Far Would You Sink? by Jesse Green

A dark musical about a shipwreck and its aftermath, with songs by the Avett Brothers, anchors on Broadway.

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Tuesday, November 12, 2024

‘Maybe Happy Ending’ Review: Darren Criss and Helen J Shen Are Robots in Love by Jesse Green

A supersmart musical about making a connection arrives on Broadway in a joyful, heartbreaking, cutting-edge production.

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Monday, November 11, 2024

‘A Wonderful World’ Review: Blowing Louis Armstrong’s Horn Isn’t Enough by Jesse Green

The great jazz trumpeter and sandpaper vocalist gets the old jukebox treatment in a new Broadway musical starring James Monroe Iglehart.

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Thursday, November 7, 2024

‘Walden’ Review: My Sister! My Twin! My Astronaut! by Jesse Green

Emmy Rossum and Zoë Winters star in a new Off Broadway play that’s a climate disaster drama cohabiting with a domestic soap opera.

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Thursday, October 31, 2024

Review: A Vocally Splendid ‘Ragtime’ Raises the Roof by Jesse Green

Joshua Henry stars in an exhilarating gala revival of the 1998 musical about nothing less than the harmony and discord of America.

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Wednesday, October 30, 2024

What It Means to Make Art About Nazis Now by Jesse Green

And is the culture telling the right stories about them, at a time when it’s never felt more urgent?

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Friday, October 25, 2024

Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler Revive ‘Romeo + Juliet’ for a TikTok Generation by Jesse Green

The Broadway revival of “Romeo + Juliet” plays to the TikTok crowd. But maybe that’s a good thing.

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Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Review: A Reverse Angle on Arthur Miller in ‘A Woman Among Women’ by Jesse Green

Julia May Jonas’s compelling play, opening the Bushwick Starr’s new theater, explores how a story written about men looks from the other side.

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Nov 17, 2024: Elf - Marquis Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre