‘Masters of Sex’ Recap: For Virginia, Work = Love By KATE PHILLIPS / The New York Times Season 2, Episode 1 Let it rain. In the darkness of a nighttime downpour, Dr. William Masters tells his research partner Virginia Johnson: “I finally realize there is one thing I cannot live without. It’s you.” His arrival on…
Read more‘The Leftovers’ Recap: Into the Dark, With a Cliché or Two By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM / The New York Times Season 1, Episode 3 It is no fault for a story to interrogate the ways we struggle with calamity, or even to present a vision of that struggle so bleak it can drive a viewership to…
Read moreFor Broadway, a Tepid July 4 Week By PATRICK HEALY / The New York Times The big-budget Broadway musicals “Bullets Over Broadway” and “Rocky,” the hit shows “Kinky Boots” and “Once” and the star-studded plays “The Cripple of Inishmaan” (with Daniel Radcliffe) and “Of Mice and Men” (with James Franco) were among several Broadway productions with…
Read moreLearning ‘Lear’: A King’s Gotta Eat By JOHN LITHGOW / The New York Times John Lithgow, a Tony-winning actor and writer, will be regularly blogging on ArtsBeat as he rehearses “King Lear” for Shakespeare in the Park. Rehearsing, it turns out, is only part of the process. Lunch is big too. “King Lear” is full of…
Read more‘True Blood’ Recap: Shot, Without So Much as a Goodbye By MIKE HALE / The New York Times Season 7, Episode 3 Sunday night’s episode of “True Blood” was titled “Fire in the Hole,” and to answer the first question of a few obsessives like myself, the simple, haunting version of the Steely Dan song “Fire…
Read moreBy: Kevin Jagernauth / Indiewire If the pilot for Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta’s “The Leftovers” established the landscape of the show — one where semi-supernatural phenomenon bump up against personal drama — the second episode, “Penguins One, Us Zero,” makes a smart play and narrows the focus. Unlike “Lost” which forever expanded the question…
Read moreHarper Lee, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” will publish a new novel titled “Go Set a Watchman” on September 14, 2007, by HarperCollins. “Go Set a Watchman” is actually a prequel to “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which was published in 1957. In the novel, Scout Finch, the 24-year-old daughter of Atticus…
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