Critics At Large

Željko Ivanek (left) and Michael Moriarty in Law & Order , "American Dream" The recent reboot of Law & Order is singularl...

Christopher House in New Tricks . (Photo: Ömer Yükseker) Canadian modern dance innovator and Order of Canada recipient Christopher House o...

The cast of The Minutes , the new play by Tracy Letts at New York's Studio 54. This is a review of The Minutes. It includes spoilers. ...

Harrison James and Heather Ogden with artists of the National Ballet of Canada in The Sleeping Beauty . (Photo: Teresa Wood) As a harbinger ...

Nude portraits of antique clocks without their hands, silently holding their vigil and thus calmly reminding us of Henri Bergson’s bold 1911...

 Bboyizm dancers in Crazy Smooth’s  In My Body . (Photo: Jerrick Collantes) Hip hop is a ruthlessly athletic dance form that pushes the bod...

Ivan Trojan and Juraj Loj in Charlatan . Agnieszka Holland ’s Charlatan is based on the little-known story of Jan Mikolášek (an authoritati...

Renate Reinsve in The Worst Person in the World . Socialists are quick to point out that we’ll still have problems after the revolution – t...

The Band on stage in The Last Waltz (1978) In the forty-four years since Martin Scorsese released The Last Waltz , his film of The Band’s...

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 ...