Jesse Green
The New York Times
New York, NY, United States
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Review: In ‘Textplay,’ Stoppard and Beckett Get Snarky, FWIW
An imaginary electronic conversation between the two playwrights falls somewhere between a ❤️ and a 🤷. → Read More
‘Corsicana’ Review: Four Lost Hearts in the Heart of Texas
In a strange and beautiful new play by Will Arbery, finding happiness is a process of failing upward. → Read More
Review: ‘Wedding Band,’ a Searing Look at Miscegenation Nation
Alice Childress’s 1962 play about interracial love and hate gets its first major New York revival in 50 years. → Read More
Review: ‘The Minutes,’ an Official History of American Horror
In Tracy Letts’s new play, a tedious City Council meeting cracks open to reveal the secret record of what happened in Big Cherry. → Read More
Review: In ‘American Buffalo,’ Grift Is the Coin of the Realm
Sam Rockwell, Laurence Fishburne and Darren Criss star in an electric revival of the David Mamet play about capitalism in a junk shop. → Read More
Stephen Sondheim: The Essential Musical Dramatist Who Taught Us to Hear
With a childlike sense of discovery, Stephen Sondheim found the language to convey the beauty in harsh complexity. → Read More
Review: Edie Falco Shines as an Everywoman in ‘Morning Sun’
A new play by Simon Stephens has hearty performances but a nearly undetectable pulse. → Read More
Review: In ‘Sanctuary City,’ Slamming the Door on the Dream
For the undocumented immigrant teenagers in Martyna Majok’s unsparing, unsentimental new play, home is a heartbreaking lesson in betrayal. → Read More
Review: In ‘The Last of the Love Letters,’ Passion Is Inescapable
If you think Ngozi Anyanwu’s new play is a straightforward romance, think again. → Read More
Review: ‘Pass Over’ Comes to Broadway, in Horror and Hope
Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s play about young Black men in peril inaugurates the new season with unexpected joy. → Read More
Should the American Theater Take French Lessons?
Arts workers are protesting closings and occupying playhouses all over France. On Broadway, that drama has yet to open. → Read More
When Political Theater Ditches the Disguises of Fiction
Four new shows are part of a movement to engage more directly in the debates of our times — sometimes even stealing the script. → Read More
From Stage to Screen: 5 Shows That Got It Right (And 5 That Didn’t)
Our theater experts provide a guide to some of the successful (and failed) cinematic adaptations of plays and musicals — all for your streaming pleasure. → Read More
Two of-the-Moment Monologues and a Multitude of Karens
One-woman plays by Tracy Thorne and Eliza Bent explore the problems of white power and privilege — and how people who say the right things aren’t helping. → Read More
‘The Humans’ Review: Surviving in a New World and New Medium
Stephen Karam’s celebrated play about economic distress looks very different in 2020 than it did in 2015 — and streaming is only part of the change. → Read More
Walt Whitman, Poet of a Contradictory America
During the Civil War era, the writer emerged as an emblem of the country’s dissonance. Now, in the midst of another all-consuming national crisis, his work feels uncannily relevant. → Read More
When the Audience Is Stuck at Home, the Play Is in the Mail
That package in your hallway may be an exciting new theatrical experience. Or maybe not. → Read More
Review: In ‘Three Kings,’ Hot Priest Sheds His Cassock
The “Fleabag” star Andrew Scott is the entire brilliant cast of a penetrating play about toxic fathers and sons. → Read More
Review: A Pandemic ‘Othello,’ Socially and Otherwise Distant
The actors quarantined together all summer to produce Shakespeare’s tragedy safely. But they can’t overcome the remove of a camera. → Read More
Review: It’s Just You and Me and the Modem in ‘Here We Are’
Theater for One was built on the idea of face-to-face encounters. Moving it online could have been a disaster, but instead it’s a heartbreaker. → Read More