Editor Pick: Culture and Society

Taylor Mac and Matt Ray's musical drag extravaganza honors millennia of queer history.

I just finished my first week on my GLP-1 weight loss journey. I'll be updating weekly on Blogcritics, so be sure to follow along!

In 'Prayer for the French Republic' questions are raised about the safety of French Jews with antisemitism on the rise. Wouldn't it be better to emigrate to Israel where it is safer?

With puppetry and magical realism 'Ernie's Secret Life', conceived during the pandemic lockdowns, warms the heart and sparks the sense of wonder.

Arthur Krump does what he has done every New Year’s Eve for the last 30 years – grieve.

'I Can Get it For You Wholesale' reminds us of the toxicity of materialism and the hypocrisy of religious prosperity messages that exclude humanity and neighborly love and decency.

'Spamalot is a laugh riot that speeds by at a break-neck pace. The ensemble are clowns of high art, who know how to do comedy. Gobsmacking!

'Harmony' is a musical about an internationally famous, all-male German ensemble that performed between 1928 and 1934 until the Third Reich banned them as degenerates.

In Bedlam's revival of Tom Stoppard's 'Arcadia' the past and the present gradually merge as the truth comes clear about love and the second law of thermodynamics.

Infused with magical realism, 'Flawless' isn't the intense, gritty family drama that the subject of dementia might suggest.