Jenny S. Lee in The Silent Sky, at Central Square Theater (Photo: Central Square Theater) Years ago, Chris Anderson observed that when cable television first arrived—disrupting the era of three networks—it unleashed a flood of banal, derivative programming. Yet only by passing through that unruly torrent did we arrive at transformative works like The Wire […]
Month: September 2025
The Traveler’s Body
Passengers, at American Repertory Theater (Photo: Sébastien Lozé) Many have written lately about the decline of cultural criticism—how it has grown timid, reluctant to judge, more boosterish than incisive. That charge is not without merit. But the reasons are more complicated than an unwillingness to be harsh or to put in the work to […]