Jesse Green

We speak to New York Times theater critic, Jesse Green, about the recent death of Steven Sondheim.

Jesse Green, co-chief theater critic at The New York Times, and Kristin Marting, founding artistic director of HERE Arts Center, on arts in the pandemic.

Composer Stephen Sondheim turned 80 last month and the musical theatre world is pull out all the stops to celebrate. The Roundabout Theatre Company announced it is renaming a Broadway theater for him. Starting today, the non-profit is staging a new musical revue, "Sondheim on Sondheim," featuring many of the ...

Last night the Tony Awards honored the best of Broadway. How is New York theatre weathering the economic downturn? Jesse Green, who reports on culture for New York Magazine, joins Jo...

Broadway has had its strongest season ever in ticket sales. But artistically, all is not well. According to New York magazine theater critic Jesse Green, this year’s biggest musicals were loud, bombastic and visually assaulting. With the Tony Awards this Sunday he’ll tell us what’s ailing the Great White Way.

We look at people living outside the law — both voluntarily and involuntarily. Host Dean Olsher explores the messy legal terrain confronting gay couples who want the privileges of a "divorce," and talks to local historians about female criminals on the Lower East Side in the 19th century. Sound artist ...

We've got a lot of meat on the table, starting with a jaunt through Cincinnati in search of the perfect chili, and followed by an exploration of the overlapping worlds of the Meatpacking District — a New York neighborhood undergoing a radical transformation. Stay tuned also for an audio postcard ...

The Next Big Thing travels along the edges of September 11th, where things are a little quieter. We make stops at an open marketplace in Brazil - to listen to reports of the attack in medieval verse form - and then visit the collective unconscious in Meg Wolitzer's radio play ...

We talk to big fish in small ponds - this year's Mrs. Asparagus; a supermarket check-out celebrity; one of the inventors of books-on-tape; and, last but not least, the winner of this week's "Five Sounds in Search of an Author" contest.

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This week we've got a collection of unflappable amateurs - astronomers, would-be models, record collectors and mah jong players. Not to mention the brave souls who put their writing to the test in this month's "Five Sounds in Search of an Author" contest.

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It's a dose of musical drama, real and fictive, in Mississippi and on New York City street corners. Plus Jesse Green's back to invite submissions to our latest Five Sounds in Search of an Author contest.

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The Next Big Thing unveils "New York Works," a series profiling people with jobs that are fast disappearing. This week, it's Walter the Seltzer Man. And we've got some more famous voices - Walt Whitman, Chowhound Jim Leff, and our very own contest judge Jesse Green.

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Fear not, sprightly authors! The Next Big Thing caption contest returneth! Perchance could it be you merrily gracing our airwaves and sporting a cap of the highest regard? All right, all right. Enough with the English mockery. The REAL next big thing is drummer Susie Ibarra, who - no foolin' ...

The Next Big Thing is mating. We've got weddings and whatever that means. We've got Russ & Daughters customers looking for a nice Jewish boy. We've got a woman in the bar you're glad you didn't meet. We've got laughing, too, which may not be about mating, but it IS ...

We often say the next big thing is visiting places you didn't know existed, even though you go by them every day. This week, that means looking behind the refrigerator or, more precisely, behind the entrance to a little refrigerator repair shop in the Bronx. It's going inside what appears ...

You know, if you've already been the next big thing and it's been awhile, after a moratorium, you CAN become the next big thing again. With that in mind, you may be asking: Where's Suzanne Vega? The answer is: She's right here. Also, fire up the laptop. We're back with ...

April is the cruelest month ... and that's because we've set a perilous challenge for ourselves: American Sign Language poetry -- on the radio. We've got a story about the healing powers of cake. That's always good, right? Also: It's time again for our contest, Five Sounds in Search of ...

The Next Big Thing is a huge, gigantic blizzard. Run for you lives!!!! Just kidding. This week, the Forrest Gump of radio shows ("You never know what you're gonna get") is a look behind the curtain of a sort-of secret society. It's dishing the Oscars. It's the only thing better ...

The Next Big Thing is Harlem. It's called the capital of black culture. Lately, it's the epicenter - or at least one of them - of Manhattan's real estate boom. We explore the connection between the two. Also, a true tale of love, death, morality and dinosaurs.

We've got a play from 1935 that sounds like it could have been written with this year's election in mind. We take a stab at fusing cable TV with public radio and we take a walk with Rebekah Creshkoff on the dark side of being a birder. We've also got ...