Theater Review: ‘Nutcracker’ Minus Music
It’s the music and the dancing of “The Nutcracker” that have made it an annual tradition in cities across America for half a century. The new production of “The Nutcracker”…
Saturday TV: More Santa Conning
In the crush of TV Christmas movies, Melissa Joan Hart enters the fray, directing and starring in "The Santa Con" (Lifetime, 8 p.m.), about a convict (Barry Watson from "Hart…
Nick Lowe’s Quality Holiday Revue
The snow white hair of Nick Lowe is about the only concession to seasonal decor in his tasty “Quality Holiday Revue” that played a sold out show at the Birchmere…
Theatre Review: ‘Five Guys Named Moe’
What could be better than an evening of the music of Louis Jordan and his influential jumping jive that paved the road through jump blues to hard R&B and rock…
Friday TV: Out of Pool, Into Silk Road
Lorenzo Richelmy stars as the Italian explorer turned swimming pool game in the latest big streaming series, "Marco Polo" (Netflix, starting today). It's a lavish production from the Weinstein company, that…
‘Fargo,’ ‘Detective’ Top Globes Nominees
The miniseries adaptation of "Fargo" led all Golden Globe TV nominations this morning with fire, closely followed by HBO's "True Detective" with four. New shows are catnip to the Hollywood…
Thursday TV: A Dinosaur Named Sue
Sue seems an odd name for a 65 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex found two dozen years ago in South Dakota, the most complete skeleton ever found. It got the name not…
Wednesday TV: Meathead and His Editor
The latest edition of the "AFI Master Class: The Art of Collaboration" (TCM, 8 and 11 p.m.) features the work of director Rob Reiner and his longtime film editor Robert Leighton talking…
Alec Admits Flirting on ‘Survivor’
It may have been curtains for Alec Christy on “Survivor: San Juan del Sur” last week, but it’s finals week at Florida Gulf Coast University. He’s been spending the semester…
Tuesday TV: Women Prance in Underwear
It's not really a fashion show by any means. Network standards prevent from showing how little covering there is on most of their undergarments. So let's call "The Victoria's Secret…