Critics At Large

Sarah Bockel and Nick Duckart in Fun Home . (Photo: Marc J. Franklin.) It’s not the Huntington Theatre Company’s fault that the opening nigh...

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. (Photo: Zoran Jelenic.) On Sunday, Oct. 19, at the Elgin & Winter Garden Theatres, Les Ballets Tr...

Reaktion Books/Univeristy of Chicago Press “Vorticism, in fact, was what I, personally, did and said, during a certain period.”  Wyndham Lew...

Stephen Costello and Kseniia Proshina in Roméo et Juliette . (Photo: Michael Cooper.) The Canadian Opera Company’s 2025–26 season opens with...

Ephraim Birney and Daniel Neale in Rope . (Photo: Hartford Stage.) The English playwright Patrick Hamilton – best known for Angel Street , t...

Works by the artist Rick Valicenti from the exhibit Playbot Companions . We are pleased to welcome a new critic, Jason Wang, to Critics at L...

(Bloomsbury.) “We know that hyperbole is first of all a rhetorical figure of exaggeration but it is more fundamentally a moment of hubris. H...

Josh O'Connor and Paul Mescal in The History of Sound . (Photo: MUBI.) In The History of Sound Lionel Worthing and David White fall in ...

Laurence Lemieux in Anne : "...lives linger and ripple forward." (Photo: Jeremy Mimnagh.) Laurence Lemieux’s Anne is a work of el...

(Reaktion Books, University of Chicago Press.) “An element, we take it, is a body into which other bodies may be analyzed, present in them p...

I opted to listen to Barbra Streisand’s 2023 memoir, My Name Is Barbra , rather than reading it in hard copy so that I could hear her inimit...

The company of Forgiveness . (Photo: David House.) Stratford’s production of Forgiveness (at the Tom Patterson Theatre), Hiro Kanagawa’s ad...

Mary Antonini as Reno Sweeney and the cast of Anything Goes . (Photo: David Cooper.) This article includes reviews of musicals at the Shaw F...

Lee Min-ho (center) as Yoo Joonghyuk in Omniscient Reader: The Prophet . (All accompanying photos are stills from the movie's trailer.) ...

Gabriella Sundar Singh as Barbara Undershaft in the Shaw Festival's current production of Major Barbara . (Photo: David Cooper.) Is Majo...

From left: André Sills as Polixenes, Sara Topham as Hermione, and Graham Abbey as Leontes with members of the company of  The Winter's T...

André Breton claimed with these glasses he could see the future. He was right. (Photo: InLibris.) “How very hard to run a movement and be on...

Debra Winger in James Brooks'  Mike's Murder . (Ladd Company/Warner Bros.) James Bridges directed Debra Winger’s breakthrough perfor...

David Hyde Pierce and the cast of Pirates! The Penzance Musical . (Photo: Joan Marcus.) At sixty-six, David Hyde Pierce is so slender and li...

Ryan Mac and the company of All Shook Up . (Photo: Diane Sobolewski.) The current production of All Shook Up , Joe DiPietro’s parodic jukebo...