958 stories by "Jesse Green"
David Henry Hwang's 2007 play, now in a fine Broadway revival, is a pointed critique of identity, masquerading as a mockumentary.
The "Oppenheimer" star makes his Broadway debut in Ayad Akhtar's timely new play about a literary lion who gets assistance from A.I.
In Jez Butterworth's compelling new play, four girls trained to sing close harmony wind up as acrimonious adults.
The former senator haunts the former president, or vice versa, in this sophomoric musical satire.
From its perch way Off Broadway, the long-running satire slings its affectionate arrows at Patti, Audra and the rest.
A Bronx grifter and an Iowa homebody share a house and eventually learn from each other in this Broadway star vehicle.
Revivals of "Romeo and Juliet," "Our Town," "Gypsy" and "Sunset Boulevard" aim to show that rethinking for the present is what makes classics classic.
At the Stratford Festival, a remix of genders and genres tells a brand-new, age-old tale of personal freedom.
David Ives's new play at the Williamstown Theater Festival is less a whodunit than a who done what.
A patient, a shrink and a gun are the raw ingredients of a chic, sadistic Broadway thriller.
How a Black lieutenant, a gay kiss and a catless ballroom are helping reclaim Broadway classics.
Cole Escola's dragtastic White House farce asks the immortal question: Besides that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?
Easygoing days of drama and comedy are just a few hours away (or even closer) in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Is moral leadership possible without parliamentary power? Two very familiar congresswomen battle it out onstage.
Elevator Repair Service's staged reading of the huge James Joyce novel retains much of its humor, pathos and bawdiness.
Resetting the "Memory" musical in the world of ballroom competitions makes for a joyful reincarnation.
A play from Denmark, with a South African cast, turns the heroic tropes of horse operas into the tools of tragedy at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn.
"Hell's Kitchen," "Stereophonic" and others are up for top prizes at Sunday's ceremony. Our critic takes stock of their cast albums, all available now.
Maury Yeston's score, stupendously played and sung, is the star of the final production of an excellent Encores! season at New York City Center.
Samm-Art Williams's 1979 play about the uprooting of a Black farmer returns to Broadway for the first time.
Maggie Siff plays a war journalist facing the most dangerous assignment of her life: domesticity.
It's open mic at the post-pandemic cocktail bar where Dave Malloy's hypnotic triptych of monodramas takes place.
Our chief theater critic names the shows and artists he thinks will win, should win and should have been nominated " and suggests a few new categories.
Archivists are the heroes of a documentary play about a photograph album depicting daily life among the perpetrators of the Holocaust.
Sleek, lucid, amusing, often beautiful, it's Chekhov with everything, except the main thing.
