The lines to the two entrances to the Community Center Theater were around the block and beyond for the much-anticipated presentation by Jordan Peterson last week. And the buzz, especially amongst the male millennials in those lines, suggested that something akin to rock-star status has attached to this middle-aged clinical psychologist, who had been a […]

Being politically correct is a laudatory goal, but it’s just super-hard to do it well.  That point is made continually in the brilliant new play by Larissa Fasthorse that debuted this past weekend at Capital Stage.  “The Thanksgiving Play” is a comical tour-de-force that is wonderfully delivered in a first-rate production directed by Michael Stevenson, […]

               Having recently turned 72, Donald Trump, Jr. announced last week that he will be writing his memoir that he says will focus on his father’s fourteen years as the country’s last elected president.  In a free-wheeling interview he gave to the press, he revealed some of the highlights of the planned book, which will […]

               Everyone, from the president to workers at assembly plants, was angered last week, either by the comments of Roseanne Barr (via Twitter) or Samantha Bee (on her TV show) that quickly went viral in social media.  The reactions were predictable, but the comments themselves were not comparable, although the sensitivities of most Americans would […]