The stage version of “Jagged Little Pill” sets a story steeped in hot-button issues like opiate addiction and gender identity to the singer’s raw 1995 album.

American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), under the leadership of Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director Diane Paulus and Executive Producer Diane Borger, announces complete casting and creative team for the world premiere musical Jagged Little Pill. 

The New York Times chief theater critics, Ben Brantley and Jesse Green, share their picks for the best shows of the year.he New York Times chief theater critics, Ben Brantley and Jesse Green, share their picks for the best shows of the year.

That line, delivered by Darius de Haas’s banished duke in “As You Like It,”trimly encapsulates the ethos of the Public Works project, whose rollicking, poignant and flat-out delightful production of Shakespeare’s comedy runs at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park through Tuesday night.