mosaec

10 Works and Performances That Helped Me Make Sense of 2023

Actors and Actresses Comer, Jodie (1993- ) Content Type: Service Culture (Arts) Fat Ham (Play) Grief (Emotion) Movies Past Lives (Movie) Pop and Rock Music Prima Facie (Play) Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch (Play) Renaissance (Album) Reservation Dogs (TV Program) Succession (TV Program) Television The Last of Us (Video Game) Theater Two Thousand Twenty Three

10 Works and Performances That Helped Me Make Sense of 2023

Global conflict and personal loss encouraged our critic to seek out art that gave her a better understanding of grief and healing.

By Salamishah Tillet

Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ and Its Insight Into Grief, Family and Gender

Branagh, Kenneth Fat Ham (Play) Gibson, Mel Hamlet (Play) Hawke, Ethan Movies Negga, Ruth (1982- ) Olivier, Laurence Pfeiffer, Solea Scott, Andrew (1976- ) Shakespeare, William Tennant, David Theater

Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ and Its Insight Into Grief, Family and Gender

For one critic, every encounter with this Shakespeare play deepens her understanding of its insights into grief, family and gender.

By Maya Phillips

10 Stages and Screens Where I Saw Connection

bestofculture2022 Comic Books and Strips Cost of Living (Play) English (Play) Everything Everywhere All at Once (Movie) Fat Ham (Play) Movies Oratorio for Living Things (Musical Work) Oresteia (Play) Severance (TV Program) Television The Sandman (TV Program) Theater Theater (Broadway) Two Thousand Twenty Two

10 Stages and Screens Where I Saw Connection

For our critic-at-large, “Fat Ham,” “Severance,” “A Strange Loop” and “Sandman” were some of the places she found truth and transcendence.

By Maya Phillips