Theater Review: Good People Starring Frances McDormand
November 12, 2026
Opera Review: Anna Nicole at the Royal Opera House, London
November 9, 2026
Welcome to Alone Together, CLR’s New Theater Blog
November 2, 2026Alone Together will explore emerging trends in theater and what they tell us about who we...
A Watchful Eye On… Sherlock Holmes
October 26, 2026Sherlock Holmes as a strict Victorian period piece is over and done with, but the character...
Theater Review: A Free Man of Color Starring Jeffrey Wright
October 23, 2026Given the grandeur of its lofty aspirations, the play inevitably fails on some levels, like the...
Theater Review: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Starring Patti LuPone, Sherie Rene Scott
October 23, 2026Patti LuPone, however, does not stumble. In her mesmerizing performance of the show’s best song “Invisible”...
Movie Time Nostalgia, Part 4: We Are All Children Of Paradise
October 19, 2026A movie can do a lot of things to an audience. It may move them, amuse...
Theatre Review: Blood and Gifts at the National Theatre, London
October 12, 2026Pop music functions as a metonym for the cultural appropriations and misunderstandings which occur onstage. Is...
Book Review: Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
September 12, 2026Beginning around 1800, the hunt started to find the “real” Shakespeare, the noble visionary who had...




