Critics At Large

The cast of House . From left: Omar Epps, Olivia Wilde, Robert Sean Leonard, Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Jesse Spencer, Jennifer Morrison, ...

“My desire was not to compose, but to project sounds into time, free from any compositional rhetoric. Music which specifically defined pitch...

From left: Thomas Middleditch, Amber Gray, Bill Irwin, Chelsea Yakura-Kurtz, and Jessica Hecht in Eureka Day . (Photo: Jeremy Daniel) Eureka...

Director and cast member David Verbeek in An Impossibly Small Object . An Impossibly Small Object (2017), Dutch filmmaker David Verbeek’s s...

Sutton Foster as Princess Winnifred in Once Upon a Mattress . (Photo: Joan Marcus) Once Upon a Mattress , the Looney Tunes alteration of Han...

Kirk Douglas in Billy Wilder's  Ace in the Hole . (All movie stills courtesy of Paramount Studios.) “The biology of the shadow has yet t...

Alvin Ailey, circa 1960. (Photo: John Lindquist/Whitney Museum of American Art) In mid-November, unaware of the poignant irony that would so...

Bowen Yang, Ariana Grande, and Bronwyn James in Wicked, Part I . Unbelievably, I have seen the stage musical Wicked three times. I saw the ...

Heather Ogden and Christopher Gerty in The Nutcracker . (Photo: Karolina Kuras. Courtesy of The National Ballet of Canada) As the curtain r...

Kenneth Branagh in King Lear . (Photo: Johan Persson) You can see the problem with the imported two-hour-without-intermission King Lear , co...

Harrison James and Svetlana Lunkina with Artists of the Ballet in Giselle . (Photo:Aleksandar Antonijevic) Giselle is more than just a ball...

Christopher Gerty and Hannah Galway in Silent Screen . (Photo: Bruce Zinger) Last Saturday night, the National Ballet of Canada launched its...

Nathan Darrow in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . (Photo: T. Charles Erickson) The Scotsman Robert Louis Stevenson wrote two of the most enchanti...

. ‎BearManor Media (June 2023). “Nailing down a coffin lid is far easier than nailing down a universally agreed upon definition of the term ...

Teo Yoo, Greta Lee and John Magaro in Past Lives . One of the most familiar tropes in sci-fi and fantasy narratives – especially recently –...

Matt Doyle and Krystal Joy Brown in My Best Friend's Wedding . (Photo: Nile Scott Studios) The notion of a jukebox stage musical based ...

Joe Pickle and Mister (left) in Ronnie Burkett's Wonderful Joe . (Photo: Ian Jackson) Ronnie Burkett, the internationally acclaimed Can...

Stephanie Jean Lane, Philip Themio Stoddard, Harry Smith, Sean Bridgers and Joey Collins in The Weir . (Photo: David Dashiell) Director Eri...

Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend (1945). “It’s like the doctor was just telling me—delirium is a disease of the night, so good night.” – Bel...

The company of Maggie sings "Everyone's Gone". (Photo: Diane Sobolewski) The Canadian musical Maggie , which was birthed at T...