ANNOYED TO DEATH

Jan 12

ANNOYED TO DEATH

Why are all the shows I love on TV on vacation? I’m not. Why should they be? Take Bored to Death. It took me two or three episodes to get hooked on the improbably loveable characters and to find myself humming the theme song even though I don’t quite get the words  — and then, just like that, the season was over. Sure, I can watch it on HBO On...

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The Doctor Is Definitely In!

Oct 13

The Doctor Is Definitely In!

Group therapy was never like this. Group therapy was exactly like this. Sessions — a new musical revue starring Robert Newman in which  In Treatment meets A Chorus Line  — will make you wonder if group therapy could possibly be that much fun. It couldn’t. Trust me. But the play is, and I’m really getting to really like The Algonquin, the small...

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