958 stories by "Jesse Green"
A new "original" musical is usually something to welcome, but when it's a Frankenstein monster created from spare parts, maybe stay out of its way.
With "The Tempest," "An Ideal Husband" and "To Kill a Mockingbird," the Stratford Festival carries on a conversation about purity and forgiveness.
August turns out to be a month for musicals, with science fiction, a Hollywood rom-com and dueling garage bands on the agenda.
The 1972 Broadway musical, closing the Encores! Off-Center season, sketches the history of the resilience of black Americans in song and dance.
Playing in repertory at the Stratford Festival in Canada, these mirror-image musicals turn out to be part of the same conversation.
In Young Jean Lee's smart, thorny play, two brothers (Armie Hammer and Josh Charles) urge a third (Paul Schneider) to own his male prerogatives.
An hour north of New York City, a new production of Shakespeare's impossible comedy finds a sensible way to respond to the #MeToo moment.
The director Robert Lepage, recently criticized for cultural appropriation, finds in Shakespeare's tragedy a defense of Great Man prerogatives.
A powerful new revival of the 1964 musical offers a kind of authenticity no other American "Fiddler" ever has: It's in Yiddish.
In Tracy Letts's gripping play, it takes six actors (and a doll) to embody one steely, difficult woman, from infancy to the age of 69.
In the Berkshires, plays by Bekah Brunstetter and Douglas Carter Beane consider equality in the bakery and the rise of the "wonder homo."
A long aborning musical adaptation of the classic backstage comedy demotes a clan of highbrow actors to tacky vaudevillians.
Adam Rapp's new play, about a Yale professor and a freshman writing student, gets a stunning premiere at the Williamstown Theater Festival.
The 1965 Lerner and Lane musical has been rewritten every which way to tell its tale of reincarnation. It never works, but oh, those songs!
A quippy Jesse Tyler Ferguson stars in Jordan Harrison's shapeless look at what happens when the L.G.B.T. alliance starts to turn on itself.
Her father's in love with a 20-year-old boy toy. Her son is a queer studies major. In Joshua Harmon's new comedy, it's the middle-aged woman who feels left behind.
A new play transposes Shakespeare's tragedy to a modern high school, where a student with cerebral palsy has his eye on the senior-class presidency.
A new play by Antoinette Nwandu puts the epidemic of violence against young black men in a theatrical and historical context.
Delightfully comic juxtapositions (with a serious undertow) make a new play by Angela Hanks perfect for the warming season.
A private-equity manager gives a local schoolteacher and her finances a yuppie makeover in Anthony Giardina's new play.
The great playwright's treatment of his son Daniel, born with Down syndrome, is the subject of a new and troubling play.
A classic tragedy, a curious musical and three new of-the-moment plays open Off Broadway this month
An intermittently thrilling new musical built around 22 Alanis Morissette songs seems to have 22 different themes, all worthy.
An English professor may have chosen the wrong role model for his love life in "Faust." Just ask his wife. And his mistress.
Upstairs, the matriarch is ready to die. Downstairs, her adult children might kill each other first.
