“Fish” reviewed
Teenagers have always taken stupid risks, but the stakes feel so much higher in the Internet age. Your most embarrassing moment at 17 is no longer limited to an audience…
“Human Things” reviewed
Human Things takes place on a lonely atoll in the South Pacific, where Margaret, played with fine conviction by Rebecca Robles, is a young ecologist studying the nesting of migratory…
“Primetime” reviewed
A morbidly fascinating inquiry into performative justice, moral superiority and public shaming as crude fuel for reality television, Primetime is a superficially fictionalized account of Dateline NBC’s controversial To Catch…
“The Body of Mary” reviewed
The Body of Mary, a trilogy of sketches, is subtitled "a play in three acts (of God)," which should let you know what you're in for. Playwright Katie Cappiello takes…
“In Honor of Jean-Michel Basquiat” reviewed
Roger Guenveur Smith has made something of a specialty of performing solo shows based on the lives of real people, including Huey P. Newton, Rodney King, Frederick Douglass, and even…
Doug’s Fearless 2026 Primetime Emmys Predictions
Outstanding Comedy Series Abbott Elementary The Bear Hacks Margo’s Got Money Troubles Nobody Wants This Only Murders in the Building Shrinking Widow’s Bay Will win: Hacks Could win: Widow’s Bay Outstanding Drama…
“Garry Starr: Classic Penguins” reviewed
Possibly not since Puppetry of the Penis has an Off Broadway show aroused such naked laughter. Like that offbeat endeavor of a quarter century ago, Garry Starr: Classic Penguins hails from Australia. Damien Warren-Smith,…
“Paranormal Activity” reviewed
There are a lot of reasonable reactions to the discovery that life continues on after death, and that it’s mad at you: gasping, screaming, resolving to get in touch with…
In Appreciation: Tim Curry
Tim Curry, who died on Tuesday at the age of 80, was ferociously smart. Along with being extraordinarily funny, it’s part of what made him such a superlative storyteller —…
In Appreciation: Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton, a rags-to-rhinestones daughter of Appalachia who for six decades ruled country music and beyond with an outsize personality and down-home wit that enshrined her as one of America’s…