Other Things I’ve Written Lately
Here are a few other things I've written lately: A rare interview with Tracy Morgan on the comeback trail, for the Washington Post. A Q&A with TV icon Carol Burnett…
Thursday TV: Sophia Loren Sits to Talk
On “Live from the TCM Classic Movie Festival: Sophia Loren” (TCM, 8 and 11:30 p.m.) the 81-year-old actress sits down to talk about her career with her son Edoardo Ponti,…
Music Review: John Hiatt at the Birchmere
Salutes since the death of Prince last week have come so far from artists as wide ranged as Janelle Monae to Bruce Springsteen. Tuesday, John Hiatt found way to tip…
Wednesday TV: A Different Angle to Sports
The rollouts are continuing on the year’s best new network. And like many of its other shows nominally about subjects otherwise well covered by cable — travel, food, music —…
TV Tonight: Let’s Call It Nuclear Tuesday
Today is the 30th anniversary of the catastrophic accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, a milestone that ought to create a number of news reports and updates. The most…
Stage Review: ‘Black Pearl Sings!’
The song hunting expeditions of early 20th century musicologists, scouring rural backwoods to find tunes that have been become part of the nation’s fabric — as well as discovering authentic,…
Monday TV: Laurie Anderson’s Musings
One might prefer to hear the artist Laurie Anderson expound on the death of her husband Lou Reed. Instead, she moves perhaps to metaphor when she addresses death through demise…
Sunday TV: Dragons and Such
Television’s most anticipated returning show “Game of Thrones” (HBO, 9 p.m.) is back, with its myriad storylines and handsomely executed production vistas, a kingdom battling saga that was moving into…
Stage Review: Make Room for ‘Dada’
It was 100 years ago this year when Hugo Ball chose a nonsense word to label the anti-art movement of World War I - dada. At the Cabaret Voltaire, he…
Saturday TV: A Forecast for ‘Purple Rain’
“Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:30 p.m.) changed its schedule in honor of Prince, who died Thursday at 57, dropping a planned rerun of its Peter Dinklage episode to show a…