Tina Shepard, Jack Wetherall, and Lizzie Olesker in Shimmer and Herringbone. Fifty years into whatever we’ve chosen to do with our lives, may we all be as vigorous, mischievous, and curious as Talking Band. The company—founded by Ellen Maddow, Tina Shepard, and Paul Zimet in 1974—is celebrating half a century of experimental theater-making, and in barely three months, it’s premiered as many new shows. The Following Evening, written for Maddow and Zimet by Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone of 600 Highwaymen, was a gorgeous meditation on coupledom, creative labor, and the passage of time; in its own way, so was Existentialism, based on the work and lives of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir and directed by the company’s longtime collaborator Anne Bogart.

Haruki Murakami (Photo by John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images) Celebrated novelist Haruki Murakami is a master of the heartbreaking and the surreal. So who better to start an online advice column? In January, the Japanese author began soliciting and responding to reader-submitted questions. Murakami’s website is in Japanese, but we translated some of the best back-and-forths. It’s weird — and weirdly charming — stuff. 1. Nice to meet you, Haruki Murakami. I have a problem.

Cory Monteith — also known as the jock turned performer and clumsy dancer with a big voice Finn Hudson on Fox’s Glee — unexpectedly passed away Saturday night at the age of 31. A flood of tributes are certainly to come, but for now we only have the initial tweets and comments from Monteith’s fellow cast members and co-stars. Here are a few words from his colleagues accompanied by samples of the fine work they did together.

This article was originally published on April 12, 2011. It has been updated. Few recurring Saturday Night Live sketches have achieved the immortal status of “Celebrity Jeopardy.” For nearly 20 years, the sketch — which has aired a total of 15 installments — served as one of the NBC series’s most hilarious showcases for very silly impersonations, including Winona Ryder as Björk, Ben Stiller as Tom Cruise, and Tom Hanks as a very dumb version of Tom Hanks.

Henry Taylor, Untitled, 2006. Henry Taylor once said, “I want to be all over the place.” He is! The Whitney’s new retrospective of the artist, Henry Taylor: B Side, is the best show of 2023. Every gallery has pictures that will take your breath away with their omnivorous ambition. His subjects range from his friends to strangers in his L.A. neighborhood to famous Black historical figures like Miles Davis and Cicely Tyson, who he famously depicted in front of the White House like a revisionist update on the dour couple in American Gothic.

The Good Wife Cooked Season 7 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Good Wife Cooked Season 7 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “This is semantics.” “No, it’s the law. Know the difference? I get a gavel.” So says Judge Schakowsky, while presiding over bail/bond court.

The Great British Baking Show Custard Week Season 13 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Great British Baking Show Custard Week Season 13 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Great British icon Louis Theroux’s money may not jiggle jiggle, it may fold, but the desserts this week were jiggling with wobbles and wibbles like weebles in a wee blender.

This week on the Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin show, Jeff talks to R. L. Stine author of the Goosebumps series. Jeff talks to him about how he got started with writing scary stories and how he writes the Goosebumps series. They talk about all the letters that he got sent from kids, and what he thought about the Gersberms meme. “I never planned to write it, I always just wanted to be funny.

The Mindy Project Music Festival Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Mindy Project Music Festival Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Welcome back, Pastor Casey! Instead of keeping him out of town for a while and reenacting more scenes from Varsity Blues with Mindy via Skype, the show fast-forwards to Casey’s return.

These days, the now firmly established medium of podcasting is defined less by thinky narrative storytellers than by attention-seeking personalities flexing their gifts of the gab. An ever-expanding universe of chat and interview programs routinely take over your feeds with newsworthy moments and big, buzzy guests. Here, we’ve assembled a non-exhaustive snapshot of the most influential talkers — in various genres — working today. . The “Just Asking Questions” Guys The Joe Rogan Experience