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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 ...
Dion, Suite for Late Summer
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.
Mesmerizing: The Mesmeric Revelations of Edgar Allan Poe
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.
Wolf Hall: Bookended
An executioner is in a bit of a pickle. He can’t seem to match his victims’ bodies to their recently severed heads.
All About the Ladies (Their Voices, That Is): Don Giovanni at the Met
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 ...
Between Riverside and Crazy: Something Like Grace
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 ...
Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic Review
Brooklyn resident Monica Burton explores Wiley’s new exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum.
The Horror of Edgar Allan Poe: Nevermore
A wildly exciting musical biopic on America’s master of macabre.
Dostoevsky, Distilled: Dmitri and the 3000 Kopeks
An extraordinary, exciting re-imagining of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov at the IRT.
The Discreet Charm (and Criminal Underworld) of the Bourgeoisie: Villainous Company @ The Clurman
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 – about ...
Provokers of Drink: Drunk Shakespeare
“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 ...
Exhibition: The Spirit of Utopia at Whitechapel Gallery
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… ...