Right now, I’m deeply enamored of a really bad show called That ’70s Show.

Fiona Apple is peaking, Didion’s backlash-proof Magical Thinking rides high, and The Squid and the Whale and Curb Your Enthusiasm suffer the cranky judgments of the very characters they themselves satirize.

"I’ve always loved Mannerism, non-naturalist aesthetics. My favorite painting in the world is The Scream. When The Winter’s Tale works well, it takes you into that arena."

"My dad showed me so much of himself, it's almost like there's a chip in my mind where I can access his memory."

"I think she's doing a good job. Well, I mean, you can pick up her little Rosie O'Donnell accent, for sure."

Sultry Idina Menzel heads back downtown and leaves her teenybopper fans behind.

In his first play, ex-con and country singer Steve Earle channels the voice of a famous woman on death row.

After a season of shows based on the back catalogues of Elvis and John Lennon, this year’s musical-makers are borrowing from the greatest stories ever told.

"Just as I was in the middle of writing, a very serious book about Kinsey came out. I read a review and I couldn’t stop laughing. By the time I finished reading, I had seventeen ideas for songs."

Amid the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, his 2003 musical 'Caroline, or Change' seems even more eerily prescient. “There ain’t no under ground in Louisiana,” run its newly harrowing opening lines. “There is only under water.”