958 stories 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.
As a work of high drama, Jesse Green writes, the Trump-Zelensky script lacks stagecraft and subtlety.
Florian Zeller's tiresome new play features Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins as a long-married couple, one of whom may be dead.
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.
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.
A new play argues that no one knows more about Shakespeare's great tragedy than a man "born black in America."
Seven of this season's Broadway and Off Broadway shows come from an eight-week theatrical powerhouse in Williamstown, Mass.
A new musical about a Filipino faith healer bringing "psychic surgery" to America expands the frontiers of the form.
With shrewd casting and amateur performers joining professionals onstage, a middling 1997 animated Disney musical becomes a pageant of civic engagement.
Bess Wohl's daring, mysterious new play is a comedy of underparenting and a tragedy of selfishness. Or is it the other way around?
A sumptuous Ibsen revival starring Uma Thurman and a knockout premiere by Adam Bock close the Williamstown season with a metaphysical "boo!"
As a lowly apprentice on a notorious flop, I got to see how the "Dark Prince" achieved his effects and cut his losses.
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."
A follow-up to the startling and divisive "Nanette" is just as startling and probably just as divisive.
An Encores! Off-Center revival reveals the tantalizing cleverness and intractable faults of the 1997 (and 1999, 2003, 2004 and 2008) musical.
Annie Golden stars in a musical B-movie pastiche that lands in the gap between tribute and spoof.
This season's wide-ranging offerings, including Shakespeare and "Little Shop of Horrors," reveal the surprising root of our longest-lasting stories.
Halley Feiffer's "Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow" turns the master's refined Russians into "Mean Girls."
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.
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.
A new work " and revivals of a classic play and musical " are having a conversation about different kinds of incarceration.
In a memory play with songs, the monologuist David Cale recreates the chaos of his youth in a rough town and a violent home.
The world premiere "kung fu musical" at the Shed isn't much of either.
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.
Despite its top creative team, an adaptation of the popular Sue Monk Kidd novel feels like a first draft.
