Jesse Green
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Sheldon Harnick, Musical Theater’s Great Marriage Broker
In lyrics of rare humor, elegance and compassion, the man who put words to “Fiddler on the Roof” and “She Loves Me” explored the complex...
‘Monsoon Wedding’ Review: Marriage of Musical Styles, With Mixed Results
Mira Nair’s 2001 movie about a couple brought together by their families becomes a song-filled pageant, with mixed results.
‘Oliver!’ Review: Tunes, Glorious Tunes, in a Grimly Cheerful Revival
The Encores! production, directed by Lear deBessonet, looks to deepen and darken a musical that resists the change. But it’s still delightful.
‘Good Night, Oscar’ Review: Sean Hayes With Demerol and Cadenzas
The “Will & Grace” star is unrecognizable in a Broadway biography of Oscar Levant: wit, pianist and “Eeyore in a cheap suit.”
Review: In ‘Shucked,’ a Glut of Gleeful Puns and ‘Cornography’
A countrified musical about corn, and filled with it, too, transplants itself to Broadway, with songs by Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally.
John Kander’s Major Chord, Undiminished
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.
Review: In ‘The Harder They Come,’ Innocence Lost to a Reggae Beat
A stage adaptation of the 1972 movie about a Jamaican singer turned outlaw hero sounds great but falls hard at the Public Theater.
‘A Doll’s House’ Review: Jessica Chastain Plots an Escape
Jamie Lloyd’s compelling, surgically precise revival of Ibsen’s 1879 drama throbs like an episode of “CSI: Norway.”
How Do You Measure a Season on Broadway? In Cast Albums.
From “A Strange Loop” to “Funny Girl,” most Broadway musicals of 2022 were recorded, offering listeners a chance to love or hate them again.
Review: In ‘Some Like It Hot,’ an Invitation to Liberation
A Broadway musical version of the Billy Wilder film finds exhilarating new ways to make the gender comedy sing.