‘Schmigadoon!’ Review: An Affectionate Golden Age Schpoof
Rejoice, ye musical nerds! On the stage of the Eisenhower Theater, off the Hall of States at the Kennedy Center, between the Watergate complex and the Lincoln Memorial, at the…
50 ‘Saturday Night Live’ Catchphrases We Say Now
1985 “That’s the ticket” Uttered by Jon Lovitz’s pathological liar character, Tommy Flanagan, when he’d hit upon a particularly egregious whopper, this line was also Lovitz’s ticket to surviving the…
Review: In Justin Peck’s New Dance, Air, Earth and Self-Help
Justin Peck’s newest work for New York City Ballet, his 25th, is called “Mystic Familiar,” a title that turns out to be telling. Those two words encapsulate the rise and…
Wolf Man First Reviews: A Fresh Take on a Familiar Story, Led by a Winning Christopher Abbott Performance
Leigh Whannell, writer and director of the 2002 version of The Invisible Man, is back with another Universal Monsters remake, and his Wolf Man is nearly as inventive and engaging…
Book Review: ‘Dark Laboratory,’ by Tao Leigh Goffe
DARK LABORATORY: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis, by Tao Leigh Goffe The slow-motion disaster that is climate change started with our unearthing long-buried organic…