The word I’ve most seen associated with Ali Smith’s Costa-award winning novel is ‘dazzling’, and it’s the word I’ve reached for most, each time more aware of how telling it ...
It is fashionable to rediscover brilliant but unrecognized records. Perhaps it’s an appeal to the notion that good work should be acknowledged — that wrongs are righted by belated praise. ...
The number of shows that I’ve been to that sweep you up into a world so complex, so narratively tight and visually arresting and thematically overwhelming…is exactly three. ...
An executioner is in a bit of a pickle. He can’t seem to match his victims’ bodies to their recently severed heads. Continue Reading Wolf Hall: Bookended
When it goes well, it can be brilliant – as the productions of The Marriage of Figaro at the Met during this season and Cosi Fan Tutti there during the ...
As in all of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s plays, Between Riverside and Crazy drops you off at the intersection of absurd, tragic, profane, and sublime. The traffic is coming from all ...
Brooklyn resident Monica Burton explores Wiley’s new exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. Continue Reading Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic Review
A wildly exciting musical biopic on America’s master of macabre. Continue Reading The Horror of Edgar Allan Poe: Nevermore
An extraordinary, exciting re-imagining of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov at the IRT. Continue Reading Dostoevsky, Distilled: Dmitri and the 3000 Kopeks
How polite do you have to be to the person interrogating you? In the first half of Victor Cahn’s slickly-paced new Villainous Company, two characters exchange so many pleasantries – ...
“C-Section, motherfuckers!” Thus does Macduff, in Drunk Shakespeare’s gleefully anarchic rendition of the Scottish Play, announce to his arch-rival that he is “not of woman born.” It’s hardly the ...
Has utopianism become less ambitious? The artists assembled for Whitechapel Gallery’s The Spirit of Utopia favour humbler community projects over sweeping plans for a new social order. Marianne Templeton investigates… ...
