Critics At Large

Jillian Vanstone and Harrison James in After the Rain . (Photo: Karolina Kuras, courtesy of The National Ballet of Canada) A departure, a b...

“By 'modernity,' I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the so-called eternal and t...

The 1935 Broadway production of Awake and Sing! The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler (Bloomsbury Publishin...

L-E-V Dance Company performing Chapter 3: The Brutal Journey of the Heart . (Photo: Stefan Dotter for Dior) Even though Valentine’s Day had...

Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer's shipboard first meeting in Love Affair (1939). The filmmaker Leo McCarey has been largely forgotten, b...

Sonia Rodriguez as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire . (Photo: Johan Persson) Blanche DuBois, one of the most memorable female cha...

Sophie Okonedo in Death on the Nile . Watching Kenneth Branagh ’s entirely entertaining remake of Death on the Nile , the Agatha Christie m...

Handmade sonic instrument used in Lance Austin Olsen’s sound environment. Lost Foundry/Fukushima Rising : a collaborative site-specific inst...

Cassie Beck in What the Constitution Means to Me . (Photo: Joan Marcus) In my American Drama class, when we turn from the golden age of Broa...

Yair Ben-Dor, Molly Ranson and Francis Benhamou in Prayer for the French Republic . (Photo: Sara Krulwich) Prayer for the French Republic ,...

Vincent D'Onofrio as Bob Howard in The Whole Wide World (1996). As Bob Howard, the pulp writer who romances a small-town schoolteacher ...

Franz Kline, Untitled , New York, 1952.   “The cultural environment is merely the reflection of what is in us, and if the cultural environme...

Alexander Bello and Trevor Jackson in The Tap Dance Kid . (Photo: Joan Marcus) The return of the Encores! series to City Center over the w...

Jack O'Connell and Stephen Graham in The North Water . Set in the 1860s on an English whaling ship that meets disaster in Arctic waters,...

Benedict Cumberbatch in The Power of the Dog , currently streaming on Netflix. Reading the rapturous reviews of The Power of the Dog is a ...

Patti LuPone and Katrina Lenk in Company . (Photo: Matthew Murphy) There’s something undeniably poignant about seeing a Sondheim musical abo...

Jamie Dornan and Caitriona Balfe in Belfast . Watching the black-and-white trailers for Belfast , Kenneth Branagh ’s fictionalized memoir o...

Yoko Ono; Paul McCartney.              Yoko One, "Death of Samantha,"  Approximately Infinite Universe , 1973. The Firemen,  Stra...

Jessie Buckley in The Lost Daughter . When first-rate actors turn into directors, one thing you can usually count on is the quality of the p...

Cate Blanchett and Bradley Cooper in Nightmare Alley . William Lindsay Gresham’s tough, darkly lyrical 1946 novel Nightmare Alley moves from...