Or: Weeping Heaven and Broken Earth When we first meet the Widow Dou Yi her hands are filled with life. Jessica Ko solicits us, before...

Or: Desi, You Have Some Explaining To Do Writer and director Aaron Sorkin invites us onto a fraught week on the set of I Love Lucy and...

Or; Finally, to be in The Room Where It Happens Way back in the abysm of time (August) I thought I was making a bitter mistake when I...

Or: You can’t take Belfast out of the Boy Kenneth Branagh is hoiking us on a trip down memory lane. The lane in question is his childhood...

Or: The New Yorker, The Movie The position of critic (if you will forgive the presumption on my part, dear reader) hinges not on the...

Or: And A Rock Feels No Pain Lauren Gunderson, a playwright famed for the tearfully earnest biographies of ideas, sweeps us into smaller,...

Or: Perfect Harmony Trim and gorgeous, well plotted and its characters finely etched, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is a...

A new play by Alexandra Shields Or: Life Out of the Fast Lane “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” There...

Or: Palm to Palm Now this is what we should have been doing all along. The National Theater of Britain rather than try to put together a...

Or: So You Want to Play Games? A stately English manner house. A distinguished writer with a flair for the dramatic. Wife and servants...

A new play by Daniel K. Isaac. Or: Bridge of Sparrows What endures? Through war and diaspora and the press of ages, what can a soul turn...

Or: Once on this Island After more than a year without the movies, ones first trip back to the theater ought to be an exemplary specimen...

A new play by Bill Cain Or: What Is Essential It’s been much remarked, to the point of hateful absurdity, that Shakespeare wrote Lear in...

Or: Coarse, and Rough, And it Gets Everywhere
 On the drive out to the theater I asked my companion if there was any film he would want...

Or: Coldly Furnish Forth Whatever else it is James Ijames’s queer, Black, rebellious take on Hamlet does not leave a body indifferent....

A new play by Lavina Jadhwani Or: The Light Within A delightful reboot of a 4th century Sanskrit play, Lavina Jadhwani’s Shakuntala tells...

Or: This Wonderful Life In my capacity as a bookseller, dear reader, and a storyteller, and a critic I find myself having a lot of...

Or: How to Get A Head in Life and Politics Brush up your Monmoth / Start declaiming him now. in A24’s adaptation of the ancient story of...

Or: Brick by Brick “I’m Jane Pierce,” grins Phoebe Gonzalez, kicking off a micro bioplay, in the style of a stand-up routine, “And I’m...

Or: The Well Worn Trail Theater really shouldn’t come with a pause button. While the pandemic has opened up productions by some of the...