Fred Schruers

“Authority that does not exist for Liberty,” wrote the storied if controversial English historian Lord Acton, “is not authority but force.”  If you live in L.A.—in fact, if you live in Trump’s America and worry how we’ll ever rein in the administration’s harrowing campaign to

"Succession"'s Jesse Armstrong delivers some entertainment almost as distressing as real life now is... As Jesse Armstrong peopled the "Mountainhead" retreat with the four tech oligarchs we'll be trapped with for an hour and forty-nine minutes as the HBO Max movie debuted

“Your Friends and Neighbors” Lands  In A Place Jon Hamm Owns The headline that leads off this post is a quote from Episode 8 of the above-referenced series on AppleTV+, the penultimate offering in a first season that will conclude Friday, May 30. (The streamer recently renewed the show for

In  a May 12 set at Largo at the Coronet, the comic, blindfolded, ramped up for a major tour John Mulaney walked onstage wearing a dark black blindfold. The lanky, reliably smiling Chicagoan typically strides onstage well primed, limbs jangling, moving with a slight lateral sashay that he has attributed

"The arts are under siege," says Amy Sherman Palladino, and that sets the stage for an engaging romp that shows the battle up close   When Lou de Laage first appears before us as Cheyenne in “Etoile,”  she’s a whirling waterspout of eco-warrior wrath, railing against the crew