Playlist 2-5-16
The deaths of so many giants in music in 2016 dominated the first show in two weeks (there was no time to do last week's show because of the length…
Friday TV: All About ‘Off The Wall’
It was “Thriller” that created the phenomenon, but it was Michael Jackson’s previous album, “Off the Wall” that might have been the biggest career breakthrough, bursting from adolescence to adulthood…
Thursday TV: ‘Project Runway: Junior’ Finale
A winner is named on "Project Runway: Junior" (Lifetime, 9 p.m.), and it's between Maya, 14, of Maumee, Ohio; Peytie, 15, of Carlsbad, Calif.,; Samantha, 16, of Queens, N.Y.; and…
Wednesday TV: Dreyfuss as ‘Madoff’
It’s tempting to think of Bernard Madoff as a grown up Duddy Kravitz, the scheming young man Richard Dreyfuss played in one of his first movies 42 years ago. Here,…
Folger’s Splendid ‘Midsummer’s Night’
Nobody's quite sure of the birthdate of the greatest writer in the English language, but everyone is pretty sure William Shakespeare died in 1616, making this the 400th anniversary of…
‘The People v. O.J. Simpson’ – Juicy
The trajectory for Ryan Murphy productions are usually this: begin stylish, exciting and promising and then go south. Sometimes it takes a while, as it did with "Glee," sometimes it…
Also on Tuesday: Death of a President
Four months after taking office in 1881, President James A. Garfield was shot twice by a delusional assassin named Charles Guiteau in a D.C. train station. For the next 79…
Monday TV: All About the Iowans
The biggest day in Presidential Politics, after months of ruminating, polls and blather is The 2016 Iowa Caucuses (CNN, CSPAN, Fox News, 8 p.m.) which would be exciting if it…
Theatre Review: Critic Among Vampires
I was all ready and looking forward to the final installment of “Back to Methuselah,” the George Bernard Shaw epic that the Washington Stage Guild has been staging in chapters…