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Theater Review: Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s Dream of a Midsummer Night

May 24, 2017
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Mortals would be foolish to miss the ASP’s version of Shakespeare’s Dream.

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Visual Arts Commentary: “Keepers of the Flame” — The Revenge of the Middlebrow

June 27, 2018
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This special exhibition is arguably the most insightful and compelling organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum.

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Television Review: Elvis Presley — The Searcher?

August 24, 2018
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What we don’t learn very much about is Elvis’ inner life, his motivations, and his deeper ambitions.

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Visual Arts Review: Käthe Kollwitz at MoMA — Traditional and Radical

June 3, 2024
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It is hard to think of a moment in the last 100 years when Käthe Kollwitz’s work has been more timely.

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Theater Review: Wooster Group’s “The Town Hall Affair” — Reality as a Funhouse Mirror

February 17, 2017
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The Wooster Group deconstruction adds layers of artificiality to what may or may not have been a serious event.

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Film Review: Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place, Waiting-for-the-Vaccine Edition — Stir-Crazy 13

December 20, 2020
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Some great old films to watch while you count the days for your anti-COVID injection!

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Book Review: The Resilient Wisdom of Tony Judt – For the Ages

August 15, 2015
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Tony Judt is an American treasure, in time he may prove as great to our country as George Orwell and Albert Camus are to theirs.

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Fuse Theater Review: Two New Musicals Hit Broadway — “Big Fish” and “The Bridges of Madison County”

October 8, 2013
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Other than the teams that put together Rent and Wicked, film-makers have taken ‘creative’ control, turning Broadway into the land of retreads.

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Theater Review: “Brilliant Adventures” — Realism Goes Time-Tripping

January 5, 2017
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Brilliant Adventures is an intriguing combo of realism and fantasy by an obviously talented dramatist.

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Book Review: A Biography of T.S. Eliot — Before, During, and After “The Waste Land”

July 7, 2015
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In this excellent biography, Robert Crawford succeeds admirably in detailing T.S. Eliot’s early intellectual development.

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