Critics At Large

Micaela Diamond and Ben Platt in Parade at New York City Center. (Photo: Joan Marcus) The 1998 musical Parade , written by Alfred Uhry (book...

 Casey Likes and Solea Pfeiffer in Almost Famous . (Photo: Neal Preston) Affable and well-acted and entertaining as it is, I’ve always thou...

The Beatles in Abbey Road Studios during filming of the "Paperback Writer" and "Rain" promo films. (Photo: Apple Corps) ...

Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, via PBS. Ken Burns ’s newest film, The U.S. and the Holocaust , is the most timely, dark, and pol...

14 Back: Hate, Fate, and the Summer of 78 (2018) takes us back to the 1978 World Series. After four championships this century, explaining t...

Bill Irwin in On Beckett. (Photo: Craig Schwartz ) At the top of On Beckett , the one-man show Bill Irwin brought to Boston last week in th...

Milkweed Editions, 2022.   “The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.” – Cheryl Strayed In her 2012 memoir...

A scene from the London production of Leopoldstadt , now on Broadway. (Photo: Marc Brenner) With a cast of twenty-six actors of all ages pl...

Carina-Kay Louchey and Max von Essen lead the cast of 42nd Street in the "Lullaby of Broadway" number. (Photo: Diane Sobolewski) ...

Hampshire student Rhys MacArthur stands in front of the image of Hampshire College President Miriam “Mim” Nelson and talks about the protest...

All images courtesy of the artist. “Now, why should the cinema follow the forms of theatre and painting rather than the methodology of langu...

David Adkins, Corinna May, Tim Jones and Kate Goble in Seascape . This article includes reviews of Seascape, Persuasion, Mrs. Harris Goes t...

“Making a good and successful movie is a minor miracle every time.” – Ron Shelton, The Church of Baseball . I love Ron Shelton ’s movies the...

Chun-Yao Yao in Au Revoir Taipei ( Yi Ye Taibei / 一頁台北 2010). Writer-director Arvin Chen’s feature debut, Au Revoir Taipei ( Yi Ye Taibe...

Martin Happer and Julia Course in The Importance of Being Earnest . (Photo: Emily Cooper) Tim Carroll ’s production of The Importance of Be...

W. W. Norton & Company, 2018. “Having looked at a work of art, I leave the museum or gallery in which it is on display, and tentatively ...

Tosa Kazunari in Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020). Somehow, Kato doesn’t freak out. The essence of time travel is narrative. Like th...

Jay Turvey with the Ballplayers in Damn Yankees , at the Shaw Festival. (Photo: Michael Cooper) Richard Adler and Jerry Ross might have ente...

Colm Feore, Lucy Peacock and Qasim Khan star in The Miser , at Canada's Stratford Festival. (Photo: David Hou) This summer I was able to...

Matt Damon and Casey Affleck in Gerry (2002). This review contains major spoilers for Gus Van Sant's Gerry (2002). In 2002, Gus Van San...