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Thursday, September 26, 2019

Review: Peter Brook Asks the Ultimate Question in ‘Why?’ by Jesse Green

A new work from one of the indisputably great directors is partly a tribute to theater and partly a warning about theatricality.

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Wednesday, September 25, 2019

It’s No ‘Glengarry’: A Times Theater Critic Reviews ‘Eyes Only’ by Jesse Green

As a work of high drama, Jesse Green writes, the Trump-Zelensky script lacks stagecraft and subtlety.

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Review: In ‘The Height of the Storm,’ Two Stars and an Enigma by Jesse Green

Florian Zeller’s tiresome new play features Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins as a long-married couple, one of whom may be dead.

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Monday, September 23, 2019

Review: For These African Immigrants, Life Is a Haunted House by Jesse Green

In ‘runboyrun’ and ‘In Old Age,’ the latest installments of Mfoniso Udofia’s nine-play cycle, America is no place to hide from the past.

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Thursday, September 19, 2019

Review: ‘Novenas’ Offers Prayers for a Hospital That Died by Jesse Green

The epicenter of New York’s AIDS epidemic, St. Vincent’s (1849-2010) is the subject of a memorial service that’s also a play.

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Sunday, September 8, 2019

Review: In ‘American Moor,’ an Insider’s Guide to ‘Othello’ by Jesse Green

A new play argues that no one knows more about Shakespeare’s great tragedy than a man “born black in America.”

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Wednesday, September 4, 2019

How a Summer Festival Is Shaping New York’s Theatrical Winter by Jesse Green

Seven of this season’s Broadway and Off Broadway shows come from an eight-week theatrical powerhouse in Williamstown, Mass.

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Review: Do You Believe in Miracles? ‘Felix Starro’ Does by Jesse Green

A new musical about a Filipino faith healer bringing “psychic surgery” to America expands the frontiers of the form.

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Monday, September 2, 2019

Review: Public Works Finds the Heroism in ‘Hercules’ by Jesse Green

With shrewd casting and amateur performers joining professionals onstage, a middling 1997 animated Disney musical becomes a pageant of civic engagement.

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Thursday, August 15, 2019

Review: In ‘Make Believe,’ Four Children Meet Their Inner Adults by Jesse Green

Bess Wohl’s daring, mysterious new play is a comedy of underparenting and a tragedy of selfishness. Or is it the other way around?

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Tuesday, August 13, 2019

On Adjacent Stages, Two Haunted Houses, Circa 1882 and 2019 by Jesse Green

A sumptuous Ibsen revival starring Uma Thurman and a knockout premiere by Adam Bock close the Williamstown season with a metaphysical “boo!”

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Wednesday, August 7, 2019

‘Fairview’: Watching a Play in Black and White by Jesse Green and Salamishah Tillet

How does who you are affect how you see this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama? Two critics finally have the talk.

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Wednesday, July 31, 2019

My Summer With Hal by Jesse Green

As a lowly apprentice on a notorious flop, I got to see how the “Dark Prince” achieved his effects and cut his losses.

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Monday, July 29, 2019

Dancing Boys and a Bloodthirsty Plant Sidle Up to Shakespeare by Jesse Green

Better known for its classics, the Stratford Festival has long presented fine-tuned versions of Broadway musicals. This year: “Billy Elliot” and “Little Shop of Horrors.”

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Friday, July 26, 2019

Review: Is Hannah Gadsby’s ‘Douglas’ Stand-Up? Theater? Yes, Please. by Jesse Green

A follow-up to the startling and divisive “Nanette” is just as startling and probably just as divisive.

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Thursday, July 25, 2019

Review: Sondheim’s Bumpy ‘Road Show,’ Now at the End of the Line by Jesse Green

An Encores! Off-Center revival reveals the tantalizing cleverness and intractable faults of the 1997 (and 1999, 2003, 2004 and 2008) musical.

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Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Review: She Belts. She Brawls. She’s a ‘Broadway Bounty Hunter.’ by Jesse Green

Annie Golden stars in a musical B-movie pastiche that lands in the gap between tribute and spoof.

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Monday, July 22, 2019

At the Stratford Festival, Sexual Power and Paranoia by Jesse Green

This season’s wide-ranging offerings, including Shakespeare and “Little Shop of Horrors,” reveal the surprising root of our longest-lasting stories.

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Thursday, July 18, 2019

Review: Chekhov’s ‘Three Sisters,’ Now with Upspeak and Emojis by Jesse Green

Halley Feiffer’s “Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow” turns the master’s refined Russians into “Mean Girls.”

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Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Listen to the Sound of Love Reinvented in ‘Oklahoma!’ (Headphones On) by Jesse Green

How did a lush throwback like “People Will Say We’re in Love” become the lean, sexy, countrified number being sung today? Follow along as we break it down.

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Listen to the Sound of Love Reinvented in ‘Oklahoma!’ (Headphones On.) by Jesse Green

How did a lush throwback like “People Will Say We’re in Love” become the lean, sexy, countrified number being sung today? Follow along as we break it down.

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Friday, July 5, 2019

Tales of Curses, Literal and Metaphorical, in the Berkshires by Jesse Green

A new work — and revivals of a classic play and musical — are having a conversation about different kinds of incarceration.

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Thursday, June 27, 2019

Review: Surviving a Family From Hell in ‘We’re Only Alive’ by Jesse Green

In a memory play with songs, the monologuist David Cale recreates the chaos of his youth in a rough town and a violent home.

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Review: In ‘Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise,’ Eyes Wide Mind Numb by Jesse Green

The world premiere “kung fu musical” at the Shed isn’t much of either.

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Thursday, June 20, 2019

Review: In ‘Toni Stone,’ America’s Pastime Meets America’s Problem by Jesse Green

April Matthis’s sensational performance anchors Lydia R. Diamond’s play about the first woman of any race to appear in a professional baseball game.

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Thursday, June 13, 2019

Review: ‘The Secret Life of Bees’ Is a Musical Lacking a Sting by Jesse Green

Despite its top creative team, an adaptation of the popular Sue Monk Kidd novel feels like a first draft.

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Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Review: In Central Park, a ‘Much Ado’ About Something Big by Jesse Green

A delicious production of the great Shakespearean comedy starring Danielle Brooks and set squarely in our #MeToo and Black Lives Matter moment.

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Monday, June 10, 2019

The Best and Worst of the Tony Awards 2019 by Ben Brantley, Jesse Green, Scott Heller and Margaret Lyons

Swinging lights. Broadway beefs. Words of wisdom. And a restroom serenade. If only some of the highlights were on TV.

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Sunday, June 9, 2019

The Dressing Rooms of Broadway: 33 Photos Over Nearly a Century by Jesse Green and Betsy Horan

For decades, our photographers have gotten intimate access backstage. Peek in as they capture stars, before the show and before the mirror.

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Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Review: In ‘Ms. Blakk for President,’ a Winning Losing Campaign by Jesse Green

Based on real events, the Steppenwolf Theater Company’s new play tells the story of a Chicago drag queen who throws her fabulous hat into the ring.

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Sunday, June 2, 2019

On Chicago’s Stages, Women With Problems by Jesse Green

Working opposite ends of the volume spectrum, two musicals, the new “Six” and a reinterpreted “Next to Normal,” find their levels.

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes 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