The theater continues to stage new plays by William Shakespeare, and the playwright continues to search for inspiration wherever he can find it. The question this week, with another opening-night deadline looming, is: “Will he, or won’t he?”

2017

Aug

THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT By David Bianculli

Tonight, Stephen Colbert has a high-profile guest: Anthony Scaramucci, a.k.a. The Mooch, whose job as communications director for President Donald Trump’s White House lasted about a week. These are the sort of bookings that David Letterman would use to soar in late night. Let’s see how Colbert fares…

2017

Aug

2017 PGA GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP By David Bianculli

Finally, the final day: And today it’s a field so tight, and so competitive, that one streak of inspired golf could claim it all.

2017

Aug

TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN By David Bianculli

The end of last week’s Twin Peaks: The Return gave us, at least, some old familiar faces and characters: Everett McGill’s Ed Hurley pining silently about his unrequited love for Peggy Lipton's Norma Jennings. James Marshall’s James Hurley, Ed’s son, reprising a song he sang on the original Twin Peaks. And Sherilyn Fenn’s Audrey Horne playing David Lynch’s existential version of “Should I Come or Should I Go?” to Clark Middleton’s oppressive C

2017

Aug

THE NINETIES By David Bianculli

This week’s installment is called The Information Age. It’s about how technology, including the personal computer, changed our world in the 1990s and beyond. Take, for example, Google, the search engine service that was launched in 1998. You can look it up…

2017

Aug

GAME OF THRONES By David Bianculli

I don’t mean to be critical, but last week’s epic battle sequence was really dragon. And this week, we learn not only who emerges from that battlefield victoriously – but, in at least one prominent case, whether Jaime emerges at all. Last week, in the very last shot, he wasn’t emerging – he was submerging.

2017

Aug

RAY DONOVAN By David Bianculli

Last week’s season premiere was all about teasing – teasing the still-secret revelation about what happened to Ray, his wife and his family since the time we last saw them, and teasing the imminent arrival of Susan Sarandon as this year’s season-long guest star. This week, thanks to some extended flashbacks, the teasing continues. But I’m not complaining.

2017

Aug

THE HISTORY OF COMEDY By David Bianculli

This week’s installment is called Politics Aside, and looks at the many ways comedy has influenced politics over the ages. I haven’t previewed this installment, but here’s hoping Mark Twain, Will Rogers, Mort Sahl, That Was the Week That Was, and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and Pat Paulsen (pictured), among other early political-comedy pioneers, all get credit where it’s due.

2017

Aug

LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli

President Trump is on vacation this week. John Oliver isn’t.

2017

Aug

TAKING BOTH SIDES By Eric Gould

CNN’s The History of Comedy is focusing in on political comedy this week, and one of their early citations is the late Pat Paulsen, who ran for president in 1968 as a gag as part of his stint on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour... that’s evident here in a performance art-like split screen of him answering a question two ways...

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