Critics At Large

Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly in Top Gun: Maverick . Top Gun , which came out in 1986, was a Reagan-era special if there ever was one. It h...

Allison Blackwell, Jarvis B Manning Jr., Maiesha McQueen, Arnold Harper II and Anastacia McCleskey in Ain't Misbehavin' . (Photo: Da...

Jude Law and Dan Fogler in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore . The third chapter of the Fantastic Beasts series, The Secrets of Du...

Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman and Robert Pattinson as Batman in The Batman . (Photo: Jonathan Olley/Warner Bros.) In his 1957 architectonic study ...

Nima Rakhshanifar and Henry Stram in Andy Warhol in Iran . (Photo: Daniel Rader) The first play to be mounted on Barrington Stage Company ’...

from left: Stephanie Hsu, Michelle Yeoh, and Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once . Theories of the multiverse go as far back to...

Aline Mayagoitia as Sally Bowles in Goodspeed's Cabaret . (Photo: Diane Sobolewski) One of the most exasperating developments of the las...

Red Army II , 2022 digital print on metal, 48 x 48 inches. “Art ceases to be solely a form of self-expression alone in the electronic age. I...

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...