Samantha Bee Breaks Through
The boys club of late night infotainment is shattered tonight with the inaugural episode of "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee" (TBS, 10:30 p.m.). The longtime "Daily Show" correspondent is hosting…
Also on Monday: Preventing Terror
Except in some political debate circles, fighting terrorism is not easy. And in Greg Barker's documentary "Homegrown: The Counter-Terror Dilemma" (HBO, 9 p.m.), it's downright complex. At what point is…
Theater Review: ‘The City of Conversation’
When Anthony Giardina’s “The City of Conversation” opened at New York’s Lincoln Center Theater in 2014, the depiction of a Georgetown political salon seemed so perfectly reflective of Washington, Arena…
Sunday TV: Roman Numerals Are Gone
The most hyped concussion-making event of the day, Super Bowl 50 (CBS, 6:30 p.m.) occurs in San Diego where somewhere inside all the excess and the overpriced ads it will…
Theater Review: ‘Father Comes Home…’
Suzan-Lori Parks has made her name updating Civil War lore in striking modernist terms in "Topdog/Underdog," the Pulitzer Prize winner from 2001, the same year she won a MacArthur "genius" grant.…
Saturday TV: Death of a Photojournalist
The photojournalist who was kidnapped on Thanksgiving Day 2012 and went missing for two years before his execution video by ISIS is the subject of the documentary "Jim: The James…
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,…