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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Television at the 930 Club
Because they gained attention in places like CBGB’s in the mid-1970s and had as an original member Richard Hell, Television often got lumped with the punk bands, probably unfairly. Forming…
Kraftwerk in 3D at the Strathmore
In theory, every live appearance is a 3D concert, right? But for Kraftwerk’s current U.S. tour, which kicked off Saturday in Bethesda, patrons were given 3D glasses upon entry. The…
On Stage: UCB’s ‘We Know How You Die!’
New York's UCB Theatre, which grew out of a small group of comics you know in the Upright Citizens Brigade, now contains hundreds of performers you don't know putting on…
Tonight’s ‘The Night Of’ on HBO
I had been hearing about the mysterious HBO pilot for years. A friend who had seen the work, shot in 2012, described one of the most fascinating crime tales he’d…
Bob Dylan, Mavis Staples at Wolf Trap
I went to the second of two stops by Bob Dylan and his band at Wolf Trap in Virginia Wednesday, thinking maybe that he’d change up the set a bit…