‘It Started as a Joke:’ Laughter and tears at beloved Brooklyn comedy fest
Arts festivals can be truly life-changing. They can also be ripe for mockery, which is what occurred to comedian Eugene Mirman and his friends back…
Pod Squad: Broadway’s finest stage an original musical via podcast
Broadway has temporarily gone dark, but the pod-way is up and running: A full-scale musical podcast debuted this week. “Little Did I Know,” based on a…
Michael Rapaport will F-bomb you into social distancing
Michael Rapaport wants you to stay home. To be more accurate, he wants you to STAY THE F HOME. The comic actor and director (“Atypical,”…
Jesse Eisenberg: I’m ‘incredibly calm’ amid the coronavirus crisis
Jesse Eisenberg would really like some hand sanitizer. But Los Angeles has been cleaned out — and, to the actor’s immense regret, that’s where the coronavirus…
Pod Squad: 5 podcasts to listen to while coronavirus outbreak has you home
During times of crisis, Americans used to gather and tune in to the radio. Today, it’s more likely we’ll scatter and listen to separate podcasts;…
Coronavirus Tales: I’m stuck on a ship in Antarctica
Right now we are in the Bellingshausen Sea, just south of the Antarctic peninsula. We were scheduled to dock in Chile on March 25; now…
Haunting ‘Lost Girls’ revisits Long Island serial murders
Documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus (“The Farm: Angola, USA,” “What Happened, Miss Simone?”) turns to dramatized true crime with a grim story many New Yorkers will…
James Bond’s ‘No Time to Die’ delay isn’t stopping Lashana Lynch
Unlike iconic spy 007, Lashana Lynch does not have a signature cocktail. You will never hear her sternly giving out martini instructions. “I like trying…
Pete Davidson channels Pete Davidson in ‘Big Time Adolescence’
I’m a little worried about Pete Davidson. Then again, that’s the enduring brand of Davidson, the proudly unstable “Saturday Night Live” comicwho’s having a moment with a…
Haley Bennett is heartbreaking and fierce in ‘Swallow’
Last week, “The Invisible Man” served up a potent meditation on domestic abuse, then diluted it with campy scares. The quieter “Swallow” follows with a different body…