The show is massively successful at demonstrating that Jackson was an extraordinary artist putting forth extraordinary art.
Eugene O’Neill’s play isn’t about all of us, as much as this production might lean into the allure of universality.
The best theater of 2021 hasn’t just been a treat but a privilege to witness.
This production squarely delivers as a potent tribute to the words and music of Stephen Sondheim.
This West Side Story, though, is at its best when it zooms in and settles down into character study.
tick, tick… BOOM! never quite resolves that tension between well-attended wake and intimate memoir.
The Visitor is ultimately about powerlessness, a fable of despair that illustrates how nothing changes if only one man does.
The 2021 Tony Awards, honoring the Broadway season that was cut short by the Covid pandemic, are all about memory.
If the play’s first half shows America as distilled dystopia, that focus only sharpens after an ambitious structural shift.
The film works harder to fix the problems with its source material than to establish itself as an independent piece of art.
Merry Wives distills what legacy we need most from Shakespeare now and what art we need most from each other.
Fruma-Sarah’s slim premise isn’t quite sturdy enough to allow its more substantial aspirations to take flight.
While Apple TV+’s Schmigadoon! walks and talks like a musical, it doesn’t hold up, structurally, as a television series.
Enemy of the People could do more to challenge the assumption that majority votes work the way they’re supposed to.
Consistently surprising and creatively fearless, Jon M. Chu’s film brings monumentality to a work of infinite heart.
Trauma becomes tangible in Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel.
The phantoms of 2020 resurface with shivery impact throughout.
Andy Goddard’s film clumsily superimposes a frenzied, completely fictional spy adventure onto a fascinating fragment of pre-war history.
Soul gets a reference-quality presentation, but the supplements package (and packaging) lacks in, well, soulfulness.
The film sticks the landing as a manifestation of what unfettered trust in our shared humanity could look like.