Jesse Green
Chief Theater Critic at The New York Times
Chief theater critic for The New York Times
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Jesse Green
Kimberly Belflower's play, on Broadway starring Sadie Sink, gives high school students a chance to prosecute a #MeToo case against "The Crucible." John Proctor Is the VillainNYT Critic's Pick The first word spoken in " John Proctor Is the Villain," a vital new play in a thrilling production at the Booth Theater on Broadway, is "sex."Defining the word is part of a six-week sex education unit at a rural Georgia high school that doesn't want to teach it.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Jesse Green
Great musical comedies are great mysteries, and not just because they're so rare. They're also mysteries in the way they operate. To succeed, they must keep far ahead of the audience, like thrillers with twists you can't see coming. They are whodunits with songs instead of murders. "Smash," which opened on Thursday at the Imperial Theater, is more of a who'll-do-it, and when the big song comes, it's a killer. But the effect is the same: It's the great musical comedy no one saw coming.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Jesse Green
Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga lead the festivities in a new Broadway revue of the great musical dramatist's work. Old FriendsNYT Critic's Pick Fast approaching the number of musicals Stephen Sondheim wrote is the number of revues written about him.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Jesse Green
The composer and lyricist of "A New Brain," "Falsettos" and other shows answered the pains of life with jaunty songs. He died this week at 73. When I met William Finn in 2005, at work on "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," he was seated in his office in front of what looked like a trash heap but might have been a desk. On a couch nearby, one of his collaborators sank slowly beneath a rising tide of detritus; when she spoke, Finn kept overwhelming her too.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Jesse Green
Jonas as a "mahvelous novelist" is a bit of a stretch, however. Jonas as a Jew - and not just a Jew but one who affects a Yiddish accent to sing his demented version of a shtetl folk tale - is even more of one. "The Schmuel Song," as the shtetl number is called, is always a bit of a problem anyway; the only semi-dud in the sung-through score, it barely makes sense even when read word by word with a magnifying glass.
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