‘Show and Tell With Liza Treyger’ Feb. 7 at 10 p.m. at Union Hall, 702 Union Street, Brooklyn; unionhallny.com. Hot off the heels of the debut of “Night Owl,” her hourlong comedy special on Netflix, Liza Treyger is presenting this showcase in which her funny friends joke about their most …
‘Margaret’s Gay Sons Featuring Dylan Adler and Sam Oh’ Jan. 31 at 9:30 p.m. at Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, Manhattan; publictheater.org. As part of her residency at Joe’s Pub, the comedian Margaret Cho has been presenting artists whom she finds inspirational. Next in Cho’s lineup is a show featuring …
‘Margaret’s Gay Sons Featuring Dylan Adler and Sam Oh’ Jan. 31 at 9:30 p.m. at Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, Manhattan; publictheater.org. As part of her residency at Joe’s Pub, the comedian Margaret Cho has been presenting artists whom she finds inspirational. Next in Cho’s lineup is a show featuring …
‘The Ultimate Improv Show’ Jan. 24-25 at the Bell House, 149 Seventh Street, Brooklyn; thebellhouseny.com. In the late 2000s, you could catch many of today’s top sitcom stars and character actors honing their skills at cheap (or free) improvisational shows in the basement of a Gristedes in Manhattan that the …
They sure do grow up quickly, don’t they? Last week marked a milestone for the children’s brand Kidz Bop: The release of “Kidz Bop 50,” the company’s 50th album of sanitized, child-friendly covers of pop songs. The songs are sung by a small group of telegenic teenagers, who also appear …
Sarah Silverman Jan. 17-18 at 7:30 p.m. at the Beacon Theater, 2124 Broadway, Manhattan; msg.com/beacon-theatre. Since the early 1990s, Sarah Silverman has fearlessly pushed boundaries, finding laughs no matter the subject. Her incisive wit and dead-on deadpan helped her break through with the concert film “Jesus Is Magic” in 2005, …
Anita Bryant, the singer and former beauty queen who had a flourishing music career in the 1960s and ’70, but whose opposition to gay rights — she called homosexuality “an abomination” — virtually destroyed her career, died on Dec. 16 at her home in Edmond, Okla. She was 84. The …
‘Grandiloquent’ Through Feb. 8 at Lucille Lortel Theater, 121 Christopher Street, Manhattan; lortel.org. Wordplay can be fun, funny, even punny. But Gary Gulman takes it to another level with an acuity that few other stand-ups can match. Anyone who saw his 2016 performance on “Conan” in which he imagined a …
Funny place, the music business — it devours the young and ignores the old. Or at least that’s how it may appear. Aside from a handful of entrenched executives and a circuit of legacy acts, employment opportunities in the industry for those of AARP age might seem slim. But there’s …
At a gala dinner held soon after South Africa’s most contested election since the end of apartheid, a singer reminded the gathered politicians how to do their jobs. “I want to implore you to think of the people of this country, and to think about why you have been chosen,” …
