Critics At Large

(Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press.) “Censorship is the mother of all metaphor.” Jorge Luis Borges It’s always heartening to encou...

The National Ballet of Canada company in  Flight Pattern . (Photo: Ted Belton.) The National Ballet of Canada opens its 2026 winter season w...

Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant in His Girl Friday . The complicated saga of the funniest comedy ever written by Americans began in 1928, wh...

(Zone Books, Princeton University Press.) “Unframedness. Presentness. Immediateness. It is under these three titles — intimately related — t...

A still from CDK Company's dance video, Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know." I’ve been noticing something. It started, ...

Sheryl Lee in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me . When David Lynch premiered his TV series Twin Peaks in 1990, no one had ever seen anything l...

Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Reinste in Sentimental Value . (Photo: Neon.) The house that provides the key setting in Joachim Trier ’s Senti...

(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...