Critics At Large

(Bloomsbury Books.) “Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.” ...

Clockwise from left: Amber Gray, Matthew Broderick, and David Cross in Tartuffe . (Photo: Marc J. Franklin.) As Tartuffe, the titular charac...

Tracey Ullman and Cillian Murphy in Steve . (Photo: Robert Viglasky, Netflix.) Cillian Murphy and the Belgian filmmaker Tim Mielants are a s...

From Left: Jordan Scowen, Olivia Reis, Mark Strong, Lesley Manville, James Wilbraham, Anne Reid and Bhasker Patel in Oedipus. (Photo: J. Cer...

Princeton University Press. “Here. A place in the world. Proof that one exists. Barnett Newman spent a lifetime searching for confirmation o...

I. Talking Skin:  Indigenous Tattoo Traditions: Humanity Through Skin and Ink (Princeton University Press.) “For thousands of years, these c...

Clyde Alves, Jonalyn Saxer, and the company of White Christmas . (Photo: Diane Sobolewski.) I loved the stage transcription of Irving Berlin...

Ariana DeBose, Scott Bakula and the company of The Baker's Wife . (Photo: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman.) The Classic Stage Company ...

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...