Critics At Large

The closing image of The Comedy of Errors at the Globe. (Photo: Marc Brenner) One of the consequences of Covid and its attendant economic ...

Hachette Books, 2022;  Hachette/Back Bay Books, 2021. “I never wanted to be a 60’s artist, but to be an artist for all time. If it’s not for...

Clive Francis and Jane Asher in The Circle . (Photo: Ellie Kurttz) The two most interesting plays I’ve encountered in London over the past t...

Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht in Summer, 1976 . (Photo: Jeremy Daniel) Almost every straight play I’ve seen in the last two years has eithe...

 The wonderful "Wine and Peaches" number in New York, New York . (Photo: Paul Kolnik) Martin Scorsese’s 1977 New York, New York , ...

Tina Turner, in 2018. (Photo: Charles Gates) “The Buddhist concept of changing poison into medicine works. My life has proven it."  – T...

Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges in The Fisher King . Around the turn of the millennium, the director Terry Gilliam struggled to bring an up...

Talia Suskauer and Laura Sky Herman in Gypsy . (Photo: Diane Sobolewski) You know that Jenn Thompson , the director of the Goodspeed Opera ...

Porcupine’s Quill Press, 2022. "There is something missing . . . if I knew what it is then it wouldn't be so missing . . . "...

Peter Moore (Matthew Maher) gives Sonny Vaccaro (Matt Damon) and Rob Strasser (Jason Bateman) a first look at the Air Jordan, in Air . (Phot...

Princeton University Press (2022); Princeton University Press (2022) “We have arrived at an era of humans and their doubles. We no longer n...

Annaleigh Ashford and Josh Groban in Sweeney Todd . Despite the intermittently brilliant Stephen Sondheim score and a superb cast headed ...

Lea Michele in Funny Girl . (Photo: Matthew Murphy) The Broadway revival of Funny Girl is a hit, but its path has been slippery. Michael M...

Cate Blanchett with Zethphan D. Smith-Gneist in Tár . Todd Field’s T ár is one of those self-important, self-promoting movies of the moment...

“Ever since Adam, who has really gotten the meaning of this great allegory—the world?” – Herman Melville, 1851 “Any sufficiently advanced te...

Jessica Lange in Marlowe . The Irish writer John Banville’s The Black-Eyed Blonde , published in 2014 and the source of the new Neil Jordan ...

Charles Laughton in The Suspect (1944). Robert Siodmak began his filmmaking career in Germany, hot-footed it to France when Hitler came to ...

(Courtesy Ecco Press/Harper Collins);(Wordsworth Editions) “Tell me your company, and I will tell you what you are.” – Sancho Panza, Don Qui...

Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson in The Banshees of Inisherin . Set on an island off the coast of Ireland in the early 1920s, the era of th...

 Olivia Colman in Sam Mendes's Empire of Light . In Sam Mendes ’s Empire of Light , Olivia Colman plays Hilary, the assistant manager o...