Review: ‘The Last Schwartz’ at Theater J
"The Last Schwartz," a play that's perfectly suited for Theater J, is certainly a familiar trope for its audience: Somebody brings home a non-Jewish women to a solemn family occasion…
Wednesday TV: Quirky Duck Stamp Artists
Those awaiting Christopher Guest’s new Netflix film “Mascots” for Netflix Oct. 13 will be well-served in the meantime by a documentary that plays like a mockumentary, but is actually real.…
Culture Club at the Strathmore on 9/11
It was the end of a four month tour, but Culture Club hardly looked worn out in their final U.S. show Sunday at The Music Center of Strathmore in North…
Tuesday TV: Looking at Past Campaigns
To give you a break from what people keep calling the strangest presidential election ever, the new series “The Contenders — 16 for ’16” (PBS, 8 p.m.) looks at past…
Stage Review: ‘Cloud 9’ at Studio Theatre
If Studio Theatre has a go-to playwright, it's been Caryl Churchill, the award-winning British innovator and provocateur, whose season-opening "Cloud 9" at the theater is as brash and challenging as…
Monday TV: Dancing With Weird Roster
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry probably won’t last much longer on “Dancing with the Stars” (ABC, 7 p.m.) than he did in the Republican Presidential Primary. He’s one of the…
Sunday TV: Churchill Has a Stroke
Michael Gambon usually enhances whatever production he’s in, as a side character, but he’s front and center and very convincing as a 78-year-old Winston Churchill, recovering from a 1953 stroke…
Saturday TV: Jeff Ross Roasts Cops
Jeff Ross is already acknowledged as a master of roasts, having chalked up Rob Lowe earlier in the week. But he also sees roast-style humor as healing in a way,…
Playlist 9-9-16
Started with a birthday salute to Otis Redding, with a slew of live cuts. Then there was a lot of George Clinton and his Funkadelic and Parliament because he’s performing…
Don’t Miss Tig Notaro’s ‘One Mississippi’
Cancer, stomach ailments and a mother’s death may not seem like the basis of comedy but Tig Notaro has been mining exquisite deadpan humor from her own circumstances the past…