What will theater look like after the pandemic? How will stage artists address the societal upheavals wreaked by COVID-19? Everyone’s asking, no one knows, but Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Nelson and New York’s Public Theater offered up a much-needed and beautifully executed bit of hope last night with the…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s Homeland series finale.  Hurling a Molotov cocktail in its fiery closing minutes, Homeland came to the end of its eight-season run Sunday night and Showtime's multiple Emmy-winning spy thriller certainly ended with an unexpected bang. With the reappearance of…

"We were as much Monty Python as we were Black Flag," proclaim the remaining members of one of the greatest hip hop bands ever in Beastie Boys Story, which debuts Friday on Apple TV+ Thoroughly entertaining and heartbreaking when it addresses the 2012 death from cancer of bandmate Adam Yauch, the live documentary of…

The most unusual draft in NFL history avoided technical glitches in its early stages, as the streaming and broadcast teams of ESPN and ABC-TV managed to seamlessly integrate the numerous remote locations. These ranged from the top picks’ living rooms, to Commissioner Roger Goodell’s basement, to collages of various…

With greetings in a multitude of languages, a suited and booted Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon kicked off the multi-network One World: Together at Home concert from their respective homes on different sides of the country. But, even with a joint "overwhelming gratitude" appearance by former First…

SPOILER ALERT: If you are among the few who haven’t actually watched Netflix’s Tiger King docuseries, this review contains a lot of details about what goes down in the sad big cat saga. With Netflix poised in the coming days to cash in and crank the base up a notch with more Tiger King, it's time to come out and say…

Two weeks after the host said Real Time with Bill Maher was going dark indefinitely due to the coronavirus crisis, the long running HBO talk show was back tonight with some big and small changes. "Please sit, and welcome to Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom," a partially shaded Maher opened in his LA backyard to canned…

John Lennon once warned us that we can so easily be "benefited to death" if we're not discerning. However, just 18 days after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic, the first major star-studded benefit to help those hurt by the health crisis landed tonight with the lo-fi but big hearted Fox…

Although his latest film remains hidden from public view, Woody Allen's memoir finally was published today and, while its first printing quickly sold out, the book exhibits the same absence of order and discipline that has haunted both his films and his personal life. Indeed, it has re-ignited a predictable torrent of…

(UPDATED with Trumpov tweet) The presidential politics in a time of pandemic in tonight's one on one Democratic debate was no Tyson Fury vs. Deontay Wilder, but Joe Biden certainly left an already struggling Bernie Sanders on the ropes. In fact, in almost an antiseptic meet-up that was a throwback to 1960 in many ways…

In case you hadn’t noticed over the last five or six decades, Bob Dylan can’t be contained, not by any particular genre, persona, creed or even voice, and the same can mostly be said for Girl From The North Country, the musical, written and directed by Conor McPherson, that transports the hits and deep-cuts of a…

One of the breathtaking moments in director Ivo van Hove’s bold, gorgeous multimedia re-imagining of the great New York musical West Side Story comes when those famously brawling street gangs restrain the tale’s star-crossed lovers from kissing. Each side pulls its own, tug-of-war-style, one holding back Tony, the…