Billie Eilish Doesn’t Have to Do It AllHit Me Hard and Soft can be gleefully disorienting, but it’s saddled with the timeless plight of the moody junior installment.
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s MoMA Show Does Too MuchThe photographer wants to “stand in the gap between working-class and creative-class people.” But her show’s venue makes that impossible.
The Contestant Turns Away From RealityAfter raising approximately 1 million messy, fascinating questions about reality TV’s impact, the documentary opts for tidiness.
How Do You Know When the World Is Over?Beneath the modest surfaces of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist runs an undercurrent of personal and ecological apocalypse.
Staff Meal Deserves Five Stars on YelpA play about restaurant-making that’s likely to resonate with any underpaid, overwhelmed, hyperpassionate, exhausted creator.
Stomping As They Climb in JordansIfe Olujobi’s claws-out satire doesn’t quite reach the tragic potential of its DEI-in-the-workplace premise.
BySara Holdren
theater review
The New Uncle Vanya’s Aims Are OffSteve Carell & Co. are individually appealing in Heidi Schreck’s translation, but the show itself never comes to life.
