

Jesse Green
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‘The Shark Is Broken’ Review: A Bloodless Postscript to ‘Jaws’
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the theater, a play about the making of Hollywood’s first summer blockbuster bobs up...

‘Back to the Future’ Review: The DeLorean Crash Lands on Broadway
The addition of 17 songs turns the 1985 sci-fi classic into a big “why?” musical with a big wow factor.

Review: Dancing With Dictators in David Byrne’s ‘Here Lies Love’
A new Broadway musical tells the disturbing story of Imelda Marcos by putting her, and the audience, in a disco.

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.