Jesse Green

The Broadway show Violet forgoes the typical musical theater quick fix to reveal a realistic take on the beauty within.

Broadway vet Anika Noni Rose and New York newbie Sophie Okonedo find common ground in the newest revival of the classic story.

Back on Broadway after a nine-year hiatus, stage darling Idina Menzel shows off a newly refined talent—and a lot of perspective.

Queen of Tragedy Marsha Norman on adapting The Bridges of Madison County for the Great White Way

HBO's refreshing documentary Six by Sondheim gets to the heart of musical theater's greatest living legend.

After a descent into Spider-Hell, will returning to a familiar stage with familiar material mark legendary director Julie Taymor's come back?

After a string of color-blind Broadway shows, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet gets a full racial makeover. But can it transcend the trend?

With a new London production and a spate of awards under her belt, the most critically acclaimed young playwright to emerge in recent years is only getting started

If ballet's role in musical theater now feels like just a cameo, this month two rousing productions reclaim it for center stage.

Last year's sleeper hit returns with its deliciously soapy fare and cautionary tale about the underbelly of class politics

Playwright Katori Hall—whose award-winning The Mountaintop comes to Broadway this month—discusses the risks and rewards of humanizing our heroes

Ann Patchett returns to South America with her latest, which reads like a mashup of Joseph Conrad, Tintin, and Nancy Drew

Two new plays take to the front lines and indict our basest animal instincts

The creators of 'South Park' are at it again—and this time it's live

As a playwright, she didn't know all that much about the inner workings of corporate fraud. Still, it didn't stop her from penning Enron, a wildly entertaining play that turns the driest of scandals into pure theater

Charles Addams' drawings come to life on Broadway

The most perfect tuner of all gets its second run on Broadway

Playwright Cusi Cram channels our culture's obsession with backstory into pure theater

The story of her life

Theater maven Jesse Green's guide to the season's schedule

Billy Elliot will be the most politically charged show of the season