Critics At Large

Jeff Bridges and Alan Arkin in Hearts of the West (1975). Alan Arkin died on June 29, two years after he was killed off on his penultimat...

Hachette Books, 2022; Hachette Books, 2022. “How does it feel, to be on your own, a complete unknown, with no direction home . . .” – Bob Dy...

Mike Nadajewski and Kristi Frank in On the Razzle . (Photo: Emily Cooper) This piece includes reviews of On the Razzle , Blithe Spirit and ...

Marla McLean and Qasim Khan in The Playboy of the Western World . (Photo: Emily Cooper) In the preface to his 1907 masterpiece The Playboy o...

Corbin Bleu and the dancers in Summer Stock . (Photo: Diane Sobolewski) Summer Stock, released in 1950, followed a particularly unhappy tim...

Carol Burnett and Joe Bova in the original Broadway production of Once Upon a Mattress (1959). Mary Rodgers, the daughter of the legendary B...

Anna Zavelson and Ruthie Ann Miles in The Light in the Piazza . (Photo: Joan Marcus) Director Chay Yew provides The Light in the Piazza , th...

Mike Faist and Lucas Hedges in Brokeback Mountain . (Photo: Manuel Harlan) Receiving its world premiere at London’s compact, comfortable ne...

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 ...