Review
A selkie romance, a dubious life coach, and three couples in crisis: love takes some strange turns at this year’s Woodstock Film Festival.
The Huntington Theatre Company’s staging of Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation finds fresh complexity in Harper Lee’s moral hero, even as uneven performances and distracting choices diminish its power.
A brutally nasty Gotham revenge tale turns a minor Batman villain into the stuff of a major body-horror surprise.
A filmmaker’s interest in a laid-off worker draws two couples into an intimate, uneasy tangle of money, power, and desire.
Mark H. Dold brings force and sensitivity to Barrington Stage Company’s compelling, uneven production, but the solo format undercuts Chekhov’s psychological complexity.
Sprawling, sexually frank, and often harrowing, “The Disappearers” turns the enforced secrecy of gay life in Jamaica into richly layered fiction.
In “A Dead White,” Wendy S. Walters blends memoir and cultural history to question the ubiquity—and presumed innocence—of white paint.
Reunited after 30 years, Bob Mould, David Barbe, and Malcolm Travis deliver a triumphant Roadrunner set that balances melodic hooks with cathartic fury.
From haunted islands to Gilead and outer space, four series keep the scary season alive.
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Jonathan Swift’s satire of power, flattery, and human folly feels uncomfortably at home in the age of Trump and artificial intelligence.
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