Critics At Large

Rex Harrington (centre) and Jason Ferro (left) withaArtists of the Ballet in Don Quixote . (Photo: Karolina Kuras) The National Ballet of C...

Cover: Dan Froberg I Grunda Vikar Ar Bottnarna Mjuka , 2024 (Outerdisk Recordings, Gothenberg Sweden)   “When they trailed their spikes ove...

The cast of London Tide at the National Theatre, London. (Photo: Marc Brenner) As I think is often the case with the iconic nineteenth-cent...

Stanley Andrew Jackson and Jennifer Mogbock in Toni Stone . (Photo: T. Charles Erickson) The titular protagonist of Toni Stone , currently p...

Photo by Matthew Murphy. The Broadway circus musical Water for Elephants , culled from Sara Gruen ’s 2007 bestseller, assembles a cast of th...

Marie Chouinard’s  Le Chant du Cygne: Le Lac (from Swan Lakes ). (Photo: Jeanette Bak) Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart...

“Life is a tragedy when seen in a close-up, but a comedy when seen in the long shot.” – Charlie Chaplin Melodrama: the essential link betwee...

Christopher Durang and E. Katherine Kerr in Laughing Wild, in 1987. It’s hard to imagine a more tragic-ironic fate for the playwright Chris...

Brian d'Arcy James and Kelli O'Hara in Days of Wine and Roses . (Photo: Joan Marcus) At first  Days of Wine and Roses , written by J...

Koto Ishihara in UtopiVerse . (Photo: Karolina Kuras. Courtesy of The National Ballet of Canada) The National Ballet of Canada' s Winte...

  Air Signs Talking , 48 x 48 in. “Tantra is a technique that allows you to connect with your inner energy and experience transformation. On...

Sanjit De Silva and Toby Stephens in Corruption . (Photo: T Charles Erickson) In his new play, Corruption , which opened last week at Linco...

Tirion Law and Svetlana Lunkina Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . (Photo: Karolina Kuras. Courtesy of The National Ballet of Canada) T...

The Beatles with Little Richard, 1962 (Photo: Horst Fascher/Redferns) “Now I'm stepping out of this old brown shoe Baby, I'm in lo...

Leonie Benesch and Leonard Stettnisch in The Teachers'  Lounge . In the unnerving German drama The Teachers’ Lounge, a theft in the fac...

Milo Machado Graner in Anatomy of a Fall . The gripping French film Anatomy of a Fall may be the most unconventional courtroom thriller I’v...

Photo by Christophe Raynaud deLage. In a six-day run at Boston’s Paramount Theater under the auspices of Arts Emerson , the Norwegian comp...

Hinata Hiiragi and Soya Kurokawa in Monster . The movies of the Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda are not just different from those of ot...

KAIROS Records, 2023. “Whatever you think can’t be done, someone will come along and do.” – Thelonious Monk “Don’t play the piano part, I’m...

The heron in Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron . One of the cinematic high points of 2023 was surely the great Japanese animator H...