Critics At Large

Kevin Courrier (1954-2018) Five years ago today, on October 12, 2018, Critics At Large lost one of its leading voices, Kevin Courrier . Ke...

“Silence is the potential from which music can arise.” – Keith Jarrett  Meteors are among the rarest objects on earth and have left a perva...

Reed Birney and Karen Allen in Lunar Eclipse . (Photo: Maggie Hall) The new play by Donald Margulies , whose wide range of works includes S...

Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot once again, in A Haunting in Venice . A Haunting in Venice is the third Hercule Poirot adaptation writte...

Album cover art: Bjorn Vandenneucker “What is typical of our century and largely promoted by the media, is the general belief that everythin...

Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer . Christopher Nolan makes his bid for movie posterity with Oppenheimer . His three-...

Ann Patchett's new novel Tom Lake was published by Harper in August 2023. (Photo: Emily Doriot) “There are the stars – doing their old,...

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 , ...