Review
Bruno Colson’s book is a wonder of research, and serves to shed light on the state of Napoleon’s mind.
Read MoreIn this Shaw Festival production we have something all too 21st century: the deliberate dumbing down of a complex play.
Read MoreIn this excellent biography, Robert Crawford succeeds admirably in detailing T.S. Eliot’s early intellectual development.
Read MoreThis troupe from North Carolina has managed to hit all the right prog-rock targets with music that has sweep, depth, and texture while avoiding pretension.
Read MoreThe protagonist’s version of barroom existentialism works as an unofficial précis for the struggle to make it through another day of being human.
Read MoreWilliam Inge’s Off the Main Road is both contemporary and politically incorrect in the best ways.
Read MoreOut of Sterno punches the same punchline far too often.
Read MoreThis was probably the loudest, rockingest Brian Wilson show I’ve ever seen.
Read MoreIn many ways, Alan Ayckbourn in Intimate Exchanges has concocted the perfect recipe for a company like the Peterborough Players.
Read More“Ballet is only good when it is great,” the legendarily unblinking dance critic Arlene Croce once wrote; whenever I bring that judgement to mind it makes me both swallow hard and sigh softly.
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