Critics At Large

Photographs courtesy of the composer.  Album cover by Krystal Pagan.   “You can’t judge a mosaic properly unless you observe it carefully fr...

Emma D'Arcy in Bluets . (Photo: Camilla Greenwell) The stage adaptation of Maggie Nelson’s 2009 book Bluets by Margaret Perry, directed...

Kim Min-hee in Hotel by the River / 강변 호텔 (2018). Hotel cafés, like airport restaurants and long-haul trains , are a magical place. Peopl...

Svetlana Lunkina and Spencer Hack with Artists of the National Ballet of Canada in "Emeralds" from Jewels . (Photo: Karolina Kuras...

Rachel McAdams and Susan Pourfar in Mary Jane . The title character in Amy Herzog ’s Mary Jane , currently on Broadway, is the single moth...

Rosie Sheehy in Machinal . (Photo: Foteini Christofilopoulou) The English director Richard Jones did a fine job with Eugene O’Neill’s The H...

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...