Mommy Time
'Motherhood Out Loud' features jokes as old as the concept of motherhood itself
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Author Archive
Put a Lid on It
A new play treats Guantanamo Bay like a soap opera
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Unruly Memories
Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky gets a top-notch revival
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What a Tangled Web We Weave
'Intringulis' could benefit from simplicity
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TV Review: A Gifted Man
A blue-chip NYC-theater cast (Patrick Wilson, Jennifer Ehle, Marin Ireland, Margo Martindale) can’t elevate CBS’ A Gifted Man high enough to forgive its flaws. Wilson is Michael, a wildly successful Manhattan neurosurgeon whose snobbery and wealth are punished by the sudden appearance of his dead ex-wife (Ehle)
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TV Review: 2 Broke Girls
The most entertaining aspect of 2 Broke Girls, CBS’ latest effort to be hip, is identifying which of the jokes in the pilot were written by Michael Patrick King and which by Whitney Cummings—who is perpetrating comedy murder on not one but two networks this season. King’s are easy to spot: Just follow the pun.
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TV Review: Up All Night
Freed from the restraints of being daffy and arch, respectively, Christina Applegate and Will Arnett manage the neat trick of embodying both the couple you want to be in and the lovable weirdos with whom you’d hang out in NBC’s Up All Night
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Theater from the Inside Out
When all the best songs about loving New York City are standards from the American songbook—with the exception of the aspirational “Empire State of Mind”—what can a modern New Yorker turn to in order to express the ambivalent adoration most of us have for the city we call home? For anyone who has ever thought
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Neighbors Vote No on Heathers
Did CB3 have a brain tumor for breakfast? Heathers, a popular bar on 13th Street near Avenue A, may be shutting its doors for good. The bar’s long term disputes with its neighbors have come to a head, and the residents are not backing down. With the bar’s future in the hands of the Community
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TV Review: The Playboy Club
Turns out, The Playboy Club has more going on than just ripped-off ’60s nostalgia and Playboy Bunnies. NBC’s new drama is actually a noir-ish melodrama about new Bunny Maureen (Amber Heard), ambitious cocksman/lawyer Nick Dalton (Eddie Cibrian, doing a dead-on Jon Hamm vocal impression that lends him gravitas) and their desperate attempts to cover up
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