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Monday, June 9, 2014

This Year's Tonys Were Decent Broadway, Dull TV by Jesse Green

Last night's Tony Awards presentation capped off, or at least put to rest, the 2013-2014 Broadway season, which featured very strong if not record ticket-sales of about $1.27 billion. Yay, m…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:20PM[SHARE]
Friday, June 6, 2014

What Should Win at the Tonys Sunday Night, and What Will Win? by Jesse Green

By 6 p.m. tonight, the 800-some Tony voters who want to be counted must get their ballots to the accountants' office. I'll have just made the deadline with mine; even though most of the 26 c…

SOURCE: Vulture at 03:30PM[SHARE]

Theater Review: Just About Everything Works (Except the Seats) in Kenneth Branagh's Macbeth by Jesse Green

Sometimes it seems that all the nutty superstitions surrounding Macbeth " pardon me, "the Scottish Play" " come not from its association with Elizabethan witchcraft or backstage mish…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:29PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Theater Review: The Funny-Sad Complexity of Alan Ayckbourn's Arrivals and Departures by Jesse Green

Arrivals and Departures is Alan Ayckbourn's 78th play, which means (if I have my math right) he's written one each year since birth and three before it. (He's 75.) This may explain or at lea…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PM[SHARE]
Sunday, June 1, 2014

Theater Review: Ionesco's The Killer Is Confusing and Unskippable by Jesse Green

Unable to get much attention amid pre-Tony hysteria and post-Tony exhaustion, some Off Broadway companies seem to take advantage of the blackout to dump inventory. Be warned: June is therefo…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:23PM[SHARE]
Thursday, May 22, 2014

Theater Review: American Hero Doesn't Deliver by Jesse Green

The woe of hard work " the conflict between the dignity of labor and the indignity of actual laboring " has long been a favorite theatrical theme, with only the particulars changing to suit …

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PM[SHARE]
Sunday, May 18, 2014

Theater Review: Try To Avoid Too Much Sun by Jesse Green

Euripides wasn't much of a yock-meister, but his Medea is getting most of the laughs in Nicky Silver's new supposed-to-be-a-comedy, Too Much Sun. Now at the Vineyard in a grim production dir…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PM[SHARE]
Friday, May 9, 2014

Theater Review: Irma la Douce -- Vulture by Jesse Green

Whores are so jolly. At least in France. Take Irma la Douce, that charming poule: What won't she get into! First, she falls in love with a law student who figures out a way to get her off th…

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:53PM[SHARE]
Sunday, January 26, 2014

Showtime by Jesse Green

Find your theatrical match.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 07:38PM[SHARE]
Monday, January 13, 2014

Theater Review: A Natural Woman and Not Much Else in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical by Jesse Green

If the recently dead Funny Girl revival ever gets resurrected, producers should look no further than the stage of the Stephen Sondheim Theatre for their Fanny Brice.

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:57PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Jesse Green's Top 10 Plays of 2013 -- Vulture by Jesse Green

Fun Home, The Glass Menagerie, and more.

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:43PM[SHARE]
Sunday, December 8, 2013

The 10 Best Plays of the Year by Jesse Green

Jesse Green on The Flick, Fun Home, The Glass Menagerie, and more.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 07:27PM[SHARE]
Monday, November 4, 2013

Theater Review: After Midnight -- Vulture by Jesse Green

Opulent yet tasteful, wild but disciplined, kinetic and sexy but smart, smart, smart.

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:33PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Theater Review: The Nance Makes Ideal Use of Nathan Lane by Jesse Green

Douglas Carter Beane has written Nathan Lane his best new role in years.-- Delivered by Feed43 service

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:29AM[SHARE]
Sunday, March 4, 2012

“When in Doubt, Seduce” by Jesse Green

Mike Nichols" director of the new revival of Death of a Salesman"has always had a knack for making people cry, or laugh until they cry, or both.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 09:52PM[SHARE]
Monday, December 26, 2011

A House of Mirrors Called 'Smash' by Jesse Green

The TV show about the making of a Broadway musical that could actually become a Broadway musical. Starring Debra Messing, Marilyn Monroe, Theresa Rebeck, the guys who did Hairspray, and Ste…

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 08:15AM[SHARE]
Sunday, August 14, 2011

Sondheim Baby by Jesse Green

Bernadette Peters goes from boop-a-doop to dark.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 10:28PM[SHARE]
Sunday, April 17, 2011

His Way by Jesse Green

Joel Grey has learned to be more positive about life. which is a good thing, because he's so damn busy.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 10:32PM[SHARE]
Sunday, October 31, 2010

Endurance Art by Jesse Green

The persistence of long-attention-span theater.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 09:43PM[SHARE]

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