Sunday TV: ‘The Good Wife’ Signs Off
The end of “The Good Wife” (CBS, 9 p.m.) tonight after seven seasons not only means the end of a well written tale filled with a number of interesting recurring…
Remembering Candye Kane, 1965-2016
The year took another musician Friday as Candye Kane, the big blues singer died at 50, following a long bout with pancreatic cancer. The singer, who released dozens of albums…
Saturday TV: Playoffs and a Horse Race
Playoffs are the big thing on network TV tonight with game 5 of the Stanley Cup Eastern Conference series of Pittsburgh at Washington (NBC, 7:15 p.m.) opposite game 3 of…
Playlist 5-6-16
Started off with more Prince, dominated by a bootleg of a 1984 birthday show and one cut from one of his "HitNRun" albums from last year. Then moved to Santogold,…
Stage Review: ‘The Body of an American’
When the foreign correspondent Paul Watson snapped a grisly photo in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993, he’d receive both a prize and a curse. He got a Pulitzer Prize for capturing…
Friday TV: More ‘Grace and Frankie’
A new season starts for “Grace and Frankie” (Netflix, streaming), the strangely unconvincing buddy comedy with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin as jilted exes of a newly gay couple, Sam…
Opera Review: ‘Ring’ Lout ‘Siegfried’
In the third installment of the Washington National Opera's mammoth staging of Richard Wagner's "The Ring of the Nibelung" at the Kennedy Center, a new Brünnhilde awakens, Fafner's dragon turns…
Thursday TV: Two New Streaming Imports
Gerard Depardieu has the stature, at least, to play a mayor of a French city threatened by a former protege (Benoit Magimal) in Netflix’ first foreign language series. The eight…
Wednesday TV: ‘Maron’ on the Skids
When comedians make sitcoms based vaguely on their own lives, they can stage elaborate possibilities without actually living them. For Marc Maron, the put-upon podcaster of “Maron” (IFC, 9 p.m.),…
Opera Review: A Sub for ‘The Valkyrie’
Ten years of planning and $10 million in production costs couldn't prevent the Washington National Opera from pleasing all the gods in its ambitious staging of all four operas in…