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958 stories by "Jesse Green"

Review: Flying High and Falling Hard in 'Peter Pan Goes Wrong' by Jesse Green

Aerial mishaps and half-wit actors turn a fantasy classic into a farce. But, like Peter, not all of the jokes land.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32pm on April 19, 2023

Review: In a Sorkinized 'Camelot,' That's How Conditions Are. Alas. by Jesse Green

A revival of the 1960 musical with the famously great score and infamously bad book gets a gorgeous makeover that makes no difference.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 9:54pm on April 13, 2023

Review: Skewering Masculinity, in a Hot and Sizzling 'Fat Ham' by Jesse Green

A modern gloss on "Hamlet" set at a backyard barbecue remakes the tragedy as a comedy, and as a challenge for today.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 9:36pm on April 12, 2023

Review: 'White Girl in Danger' Flips the Script on Soap Operas by Jesse Green

Michael R. Jackson's wild new musical satire is packed with a thesis' worth of insight about fate and representation.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12pm on April 10, 2023

Review: In 'Shucked,' a Glut of Gleeful Puns and 'Cornography' by Jesse Green

A countrified musical about corn, and filled with it, too, transplants itself to Broadway, with songs by Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 9:32pm on April 4, 2023

John Kander's Major Chord, Undiminished by Jesse Green

The 96-year-old composer of "Chicago" and "Cabaret" is making a brand-new start of it with "New York, New York," his 16th Broadway musical.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 5:03am on April 4, 2023

Review: The Many Thrilling Flavors of a Full-Scale 'Sweeney Todd' by Jesse Green

Sondheim's masterpiece, restored to its proper size and sung to the hilt by Josh Groban, makes a welcome Broadway return.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 9:00pm on March 26, 2023

'Bad Cinderella' Review: The Title Warned Us by Jesse Green

Andrew Lloyd Webber hopes to extend an unbroken 43-year streak on Broadway. But his 13th new musical may not be the charm.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32am on March 24, 2023

Review: In Bob Fosse's 'Dancin',' a Wiggle Is Worth a Thousand Words by Jesse Green

A revival of the 1978 dancical has been substantially revamped to argue for Bob Fosse's pure dance cred. It's a joy anyway.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 8:00pm on March 19, 2023

Review: In Fosse's 'Dancin',' a Wiggle Is Worth a Thousand Words by Jesse Green

A revival of the 1978 dancical has been substantially revamped to argue for Bob Fosse's pure dance cred. It's a joy anyway.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 8:00pm on March 19, 2023

Review: A Pageant of Love and Antisemitism, in 'Parade' by Jesse Green

Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond star in a timely and gorgeously sung Broadway revival of the 1998 musical about the Leo Frank case.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00pm on March 16, 2023

Review: In 'The Harder They Come,' Innocence Lost to a Reggae Beat by Jesse Green

A stage adaptation of the 1972 movie about a Jamaican singer turned outlaw hero sounds great but falls hard at the Public Theater.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00pm on March 15, 2023

'A Doll's House' Review: Jessica Chastain Plots an Escape by Jesse Green

Jamie Lloyd's compelling, surgically precise revival of Ibsen's 1879 drama throbs like an episode of "CSI: Norway."

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 8:30pm on March 9, 2023

Review: Holding Hands With the Homeless, in 'Love' by Jesse Green

Alexander Zeldin's heartbreaking play set in a temporary housing facility retunes our attention from the big picture to the small accommodations.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 2:44pm on March 2, 2023

Review: A 'Seagull' Airlifted to a World of Soy Milk and Prada Sneakers by Jesse Green

Parker Posey stars in "The Seagull/Woodstock, NY," as Chekhov comes to the Catskills.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 7:30pm on February 28, 2023

'The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window' Review: The Sin of Apathy by Jesse Green

Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan star as Village bohemians in a rare revival of Lorraine Hansberry's indictment of liberal inertia.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 8:00pm on February 27, 2023

Review: Rude T-Shirts and Rude Awakenings in 'A Bright New Boise' by Jesse Green

An early play by Samuel D. Hunter finds the author developing his voice by lending it to the lost souls working at an Idaho Hobby Lobby.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 9:54pm on February 21, 2023

When 'A Little Touch of Star Quality' Is a Little Too Much by Jesse Green

In upcoming musical revivals, world leaders both real (Imelda Marcos, Eva Perón) and folkloric (King Arthur) get an image makeover they may not deserve.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 5:00am on February 21, 2023

Review: In 'The Wanderers,' Two Marriages and a Movie Star by Jesse Green

Anna Ziegler's play about an Orthodox couple in the 1970s and an unorthodox one in the 2010s explores the limits of longing.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 9:30pm on February 16, 2023

Review: How to Shoot Your Parents, in 'Pictures From Home' by Jesse Green

In a stage adaptation of Larry Sultan's photo memoir, Nathan Lane stars as the father everyone's aiming at.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00pm on February 9, 2023

How Do You Measure a Season on Broadway? In Cast Albums. by Jesse Green

From "A Strange Loop" to "Funny Girl," most Broadway musicals of 2022 were recorded, offering listeners a chance to love or hate them again.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 2:02pm on January 19, 2023

What's Next for the Great Gay Play? Everything. by Jesse Green

In recent shows, ideas of gayness are expanding, combining and disappearing all at once.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:19am on January 17, 2023

Review: In 'Between Riverside and Crazy,' Real Estate Gets Real by Jesse Green

Stephen Adly Guirgis's 2014 play finally comes to Broadway, its hilarious, loving and unvarnished vision of the universal human hustle intact.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32pm on December 19, 2022

Review: 'Merrily We Roll Along' Returns, the Way It Never Was by Jesse Green

Maria Friedman's rethinking of the much-loved, much-monkeyed-with 1981 Sondheim-Furth flop gets very close to coherence, and all the way to enjoyable.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 7:18pm on December 12, 2022

Review: In 'Some Like It Hot,' an Invitation to Liberation by Jesse Green

A Broadway musical version of the Billy Wilder film finds exhilarating new ways to make the gender comedy sing.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42pm on December 11, 2022
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