Critics At Large

A scene from Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border . (Photo: Agata Kubis) The gorgeous opening shots of Agnieszka Holland ’s Green Border reveal ...

Damien Atkins and ensemble in Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Human Heart . (Photo: Emily Cooper) Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holm...

“I think there are different kinds of fame. There’s a fame which is plastic and about money and then there’s a fame when no one knows who yo...

Elliott Gould, David Arkin, and Donald Sutherland in M*A*S*H (1970). Even in a roster as quirky as the list of actors who dominated Americ...

Christopher Innvar, Stephanie Jean Lane, and Mark H. Dold in Boeing Boeing . (Photo: Daniel Rader) The irony of farce is that, though it’s ...

Barbara Ronchi and Enea Sala in Kidnapped . The Italian Marco Bellocchio must surely be the world’s greatest living filmmaker, since his mos...

Publicity still from Niagara (Photo by Gene Korman). “Marilyn Monroe and Niagara Falls, a raging torrent of emotion that even nature can’t c...

The cast of Standing at the Sky's Edge in the West End. (Photo: Brinkhoff-Moegenburg) Standing at the Sky’s Edge is playing to enthus...

Joan Almedilla singing "Bali H'ai" to Cameron Loyal and the sailors in South Pacific . Of the trio of Rodgers and Hammerstei...

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...