Critics At Large

Danny Burstein in Alex Timbers' 2018 staging of Moulin Rouge! (Photo: Matthew Murphy) The “new” musical Moulin Rouge! is very k...

Lakeith Stanfield, Donald Glover, and Brian Tyree Henry in FX's Atlanta , whose second season ended May 10. (Photo: FX) Note: Thi...

Author H. Rider Haggard, often credited as a pioneer of the "lost world" fiction genre. (Photo: Getty) A group of men take...

Bill Hader as the title character in HBO's Barry . (Photo: HBO) The star-struck gangster isn’t exactly a new trope – think Cole P...

Jenna Fischer and Oliver Hudson in Splitting Up Together . (Photo: Eric McCandless) “When did comedies become half-hour dramas?” comp...

Rosie Perez and Josh Radnor in Rise . (Photo: Peter Kramer/NBC) Towards the end of the third episode of NBC’s new high-school theatre...

Glenn Howerton as high school teacher, Jack Griffin, in A.P. Bio . There’s a forced wholesomeness to some network television that’s en...

The NPR Politics Podcast On February 28, Matt House, Communications Director for Senator Chuck Schumer, pointed to a correction in The...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a doctor on a network drama seems like he’s kind of an asshole, but his unconventional approach...

Dylan McDermott in L.A. to Vegas The Fox sitcom L.A. to Vegas is a lot like the titular flight that it chronicles: it’s quick, ...

playwright Lorraine Hansberry Any attempt to assess the entirety of Lorraine Hansberry ’s career quickly runs into the inescapable fa...

Seret Scott Political activism and art have always had a complicated relationship: art can enhance the power of an activist message, ...

Andre Braugher, Andy Samberg and Melissa Fumero in Brooklyn Nine-Nine (photo: Jordin Althaus/Fox)  From the moment it premiered on F...

Alex Newell as Asaka and Hailey Kilgore as Ti Moune in Once on This Island . (Photo: Joan Marcus) A play isn’t just words on a page: ...

Author and musician John Darnielle Paper-based role-playing games and video rental stores in rural Iowa might seem unlikely subjects ...

When I wrote about This Is Us last year , I noted that the NBC drama, along with creator Dan Fogelman’s now-defunct Fox baseball sho...

Adam Scott and Craig Robinson in Fox's Ghosted . I think I like Ghosted –  though, to be honest, I’m not sure. Even though I’ve w...

Ted Danson and Kristen Bell Warning: This review covers the entire first season of The Good Place , as well as the premiere of Seas...

As I walked out of Burn All Night , a new musical running at the American Repertory Theater’s Club Oberon, I found myself feeling odd...

Aaron Tveit (right) and the cast of Company at Barrington Stage. (Photo: Daniel Rader) To say that a production of a Stephen Sondheim...