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…
Also on Friday: New ‘Quarry’ on Cinemax
The latest brutal rurally-set drama from Cinemax concentrates on a Vietnam veteran in 1972 who is rebuked by society and hired by a local mob boss. Logan Marshall-Green plays the…
Pamela Adlon’s Great New ‘Better Things’
For the second time in three days (after Tuesday’s premiere of “Atlanta”), FX premieres another new comedy that will further change the game on TV. There have been any number…