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By all means, explore history’s tragedies on stage — virtual or otherwise. But always keep a sharp, invigorating eye on the present’s tragedies-in-the-making.
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Mare of Easttown is particularly effective in interweaving troubled domestic timelines, families held together by women who are on the brink of psychic or emotional collapse.
Read MoreTeams of string coaches were deployed to make this quartet of actors look like they knew what they are doing with their instruments, but no critic has noticed how completely unrelated the motions of their left hands — finger placement and vibrato — are to the music that is played, with the exception of Christopher Walken, who looks like he is playing his cello correctly and producing real music.
Read MoreWhat has Black Mirror been good for, beyond entertainment, if not drawing our attention to escalating social and technological perils?
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The Lyric Stage Company’s production of David Henry Hwang’s Obie award-winning play is serviceably absorbing.
Read MoreOtto Piene’s art is at once appealing, accessible, and yet somehow unworldly: joyful mystery yoked to dynamic playfulness.
Read MoreWhile the nostalgic exposition pays dutiful homage to the original story, the gangbuster finish should satisfy the audience’s summer techno-lust.
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This Korean novel dramatizes, with indelible force, the utter dehumanization of women confined to authoritarian patriarchal imprisonment.
Read MoreThe musical is a relentless, one hour and fifty minute excursion into the history of racial bias in America, from the cotton fields to the Civil Rights movement.
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A Compendium of Consolations: The Words of Albert Murray
“Art . . . is . . . fundamental equipment for existence on human terms.” — Albert Murray
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