SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight's second episode of Game Of Thrones Season 8. BTW – we'll be reviewing and recapping every episode of the final season of the HBO series right up to and including the May 19 finale. If there truly is honor among thieves, then the "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms"…

Atrocities happen. Shakespearean-level atrocities, dismembered-and-baked-in-a-pie atrocities. Humanity’s responses – tears, mockery, more atrocity – are ludicrously inadequate, but really, aren’t you just glad we have Nathan Lane on our side? And while we’re on the subject of inadequacy, put me down for singling out…

Lucas Hnath's Hillary and Clinton boasts the gladdening sight of Laurie Metcalf, her every bit the equal John Lithgow and director Joe Mantello’s unfailing grace, but for all of that, no small part of the satisfaction this play delivers is recognition of an entirely different sort. Yes, you’re likely to think at least…

Broadway is doing some remarkable myth-making this season, or maybe myth-revising. Daniel Fish’s Oklahoma! is upending that great American folktale of the frontier. Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird is taking on the myth of its very own origins. And now Hadestown, the most thrilling new original…

During Beyonce’s performance at last year’s Coachella, she brought a company of over 200 marching band members, dancers, and background singers on a massive stage to put on a full two-hour concert. The popular festival is used to seeing flower crowns and hipster coffee shop headliners of the acoustic or EDM…

Can a play lie in wait? Let’s say it can so we can say that it has: Lanford Wilson’s Burn This has been lurking about since 1987 anticipating the arrival of Adam Driver, and for that match-up alone the years haven’t been wasted. But that match-up alone is very nearly all we get in Michael Mayer’s Broadway revival…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight's Game Of Thrones Season 8 debut. BTW – we’ll be reviewing and recapping every episode of the final season of the HBO series right up to and including the May 19 finale. Ending with a stare down that was literally years in the making, Game of Thrones kicked off its…

Who knows if Harper Lee had Oklahoma! on her mind when she came up with the fate that befalls To Kill A Mockingbird‘s villainous Bob Ewell, but after seeing Daniel Fish’s astonishing reimagining of the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic musical, opening tonight on Broadway at Circle in the Square, we’d all be wise to…

With the arrival of her mighty Lear, Glenda Jackson has, in the span of a year, provided Broadway with twin portraits of once towering figures humbled by age – last year a matriarch in Three Tall Women, now theater’s ultimate patriarch in King Lear, opening tonight at the Cort Theatre. I’ve no doubt she could come…

The impulse to tear down and start over, as ancient as we are, occasionally makes a bigger noise of itself than usual. World War I, that was a loud one. Sacco and Vanzetti, loud. The Sex Pistols, really loud. The noise was so loud in 2016 it handed the earth’s most important job to a reality TV host who’d distilled…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details of tonight's Season 9 penultimate episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead. "We’ve known for years that this moment would come eventually, and it didn’t feel right to wait past this season," says The Walking Dead executive producer Angela Kang of the killing of 10 characters on the…

SPOILER ALERT: This review contains details of the movie version of The Dirt Having taken decades to make it to the screen, you kind of knew any adaptation of Mötley Crüe’s 2001 memoir The Dirt was going to be problematic, to put it politely. Infamy has a tiring tendency to downgrade over time to just being lame…