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The tech company wants to rebuild a Toronto neighborhood—but residents aren’t having it. → Read More
Showtime was surely being facetious when, in the run-up to the July premiere of its Sacha Baron Cohen prank show Who Is America?, the network... → Read More
“Do you suffer from white thoughts?” Jon Hamm asks in the first episode of Random Acts of Flyness, a trippy new variety series created for... → Read More
On Monday afternoon, in a long Facebook post, Chris Gethard announced the end of The Chris Gethard Show. The series has a long and somewhat torturous history: It began as a monthly live show at New York’s Upright Citizens Brigade in 2009, when Gethard was an instructor at the legendary improv theater, and moved to the public access channel Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) in 2011. Comedy… → Read More
Mike Birbiglia’s couch is the spine of his engaging one-man show, The New One, playing at the Cherry Lane Theatre through the end of August.... → Read More
The show is about the infinite lives the wealthy get to lead, and the endless second chances that money can buy. → Read More
At the gay conversion therapy center at the heart of The Miseducation of Cameron Post, the teenage charges wear uniforms: blue button-down shirts and navy... → Read More
Variety’s “10 Comics to Watch” showcase, an annual series at Montreal’s Just for Laughs comedy festival, got off to a great start. The lineup of... → Read More
After all, she’s not a crisis counselor; she’s a stand-up comedian → Read More
Montreal’s annual Just for Laughs comedy festival is the biggest of its kind in the world, with over 350 artists performing over the span of... → Read More
On a warm night in June, Catherine Cohen stepped onto the stage at Joe’s Pub in a red silk jumpsuit and cat-eye sunglasses, her puff of long brown hair swept off her face, and approached the microphone. “Hell-ooo,” she trilled. “Wow. I have an amazing voice.” It was the comedian’s first show at Joe’s Pub, the cozy cabaret venue at the Public Theater, and the crowd was packed and pumped. As… → Read More
In “Just a Shot Away,” Saul Austerlitz revisits the concert that started in hope and ended in bloodshed → Read More
This week I sat down to watch new episodes of a few returning series, and found each had the same problem: They were attempting to... → Read More
Not that they need it. → Read More
In the opener of the second season of GLOW, the Netflix comedy based on the syndicated 1980s women’s wrestling series, Marc Maron’s character, a director... → Read More
It’s instructive that many articles lauding Set It Up as the second coming of the rom-com don’t contest its aggressive mediocrity. In fact, most reviews... → Read More
Just in time for pit-stain season, HBO has another limited series about the twisted lives of well-off white Americans, based on a novel and directed... → Read More
Whitney tells a maddeningly familiar story: the one about talent squandered on drugs; the one about a bright, brilliant girl who became a spent woman.... → Read More
Whitney tells a maddeningly familiar story: the one about talent squandered on drugs; the one about a bright, brilliant girl who became a spent woman.... → Read More
You may have heard that Sorry to Bother You, the debut film from writer-director Boots Riley, is nuts. And it is: Lakeith Stanfield stars as... → Read More