Books
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Review: ‘The Good John Proctor’ Imagines Girlhood BFFs
The play, directed by Caitlin Sullivan at the Connelly Theater, focuses on two girls in the year leading up to…
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Review: In Fosse’s ‘Dancin’,’ a Wiggle Is Worth a Thousand Words
A revival of the 1978 dancical has been substantially revamped to argue for Bob Fosse’s pure dance cred. It’s a…
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These Painters Regret Their Dealings With Scam Artists
Young artists say they often receive offers by email to purchase their paintings, but many are part of schemes to…
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Broadway’s ‘Room,’ Starring Adrienne Warren, Postpones Run Indefinitely
The show, scheduled to open in April at the James Earl Jones Theater, was adapted from Emma Donoghue’s best-selling 2010…
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‘Lucky Hank’ Review: Better Call Solecism
Bob Odenkirk returns to TV as an academic with a knack for talking himself into trouble.
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Finding a Voice (and Bodies) for an Untold South African Story
In “Broken Chord,” the choreographer Gregory Maqoma and the composer Thuthuka Sibisi consider the journey of a South African choir…
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‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ Review: Yells Like Teen Spirit
The problem with this sequel is that the character used up his best ideas in the first movie.
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‘Boston Strangler’ Review: Chasing a Killer (and a Byline)
Keira Knightley plays a dogged journalist in this colorless true-crime drama streaming on Hulu.
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A Sculptor’s Disappearance, Narrated by Her ‘Less Beautiful’ Sister
Joyce Carol Oates’s overarching thematic obsession is violence and its ripple effects, treated brilliantly in novels like “A Book of…
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Learning to Hear What the Dead Have to Say
In “Still Life With Bones,” Alexa Hagerty recounts her training in the science of forensic exhumation at mass grave sites…