Tommy Karr

Category: Entertainment

  • There’s a hurricane a’comin’!

    Well NYC… here it comes. Hurricane Irene is heading our way and the city is on high alert.  There is a mandatory evacuation for all residents living in Zone A, sandbags are being lined up along parts of Staten Island, Queens and Wall Street, and stores are being emptied of paper products and emergency supplies.…

  • Bewitched Returning to TV??

    Please oh please let the rumors be true and please oh please let it be good! For details on the possible rebooting of Bewitched (possibly one of my all-time favorite television shows ever) please visit my friend Mike’s blog: Hailing Frequencies Open.

  • Answers to the Young Patrons Theatre Trivia Quiz

    As promised, albeit late, here is a link to the answers from TDF’s Young Patrons Trivia Night at Hurley’s. From TDF Stages: Answers to Our Theatre Trivia Quiz. To read more about the event visit this previous blog post. And if you are interested in learning more about the Young Patrons Committee at TDF click here…

  • The Captains (Part 2)

    My friend Mike emailed me about a week ago with information about a free screening for William Shatner’s documentary The Captains.  He is upstate stage managing Cooking With The Calamari Sisters: Mangia Italiana with our friends Steve and Jay so he couldn’t go.  But when I mentioned it to Quincy she froke out.  “WHAT TIME ARE…

  • The Captains (Part 1)

    This is just a sneak peek at the hilarity that Quincy and I had at last nights screening of William Shatner’s “The Captains” on the deck of the Intrepid. Full details on the ridiculousness to come shortly.

  • Hoarders: An Obsession with Television

    I killed cable a few months back and have not regretted it once.  In fact, between Netflix and Hulu I have no need for “traditional” TV.  And I’ve discovered that I enjoy watching a series one episode after another as opposed to waiting week to week for the next new episode.  It doesn’t matter that…

  • TDF’s Young Patrons Theatre Trivia Night at Hurley’s

    Marie Osmond, Elaine Paige, Sandy Duncan, and Betty White have all played the female lead in what classic 1950’s musical? This was just a taste of the trivia competition that so engrossed nearly 40 players last night at Hurley’s for the inaugural event of the Young Patrons Committee (YPC) at Theatre Development Fund. The recently formed…

  • How my old Nintendo games will support “It Gets Better”

    I recently found a collection of well-preserved Nintendo games when cleaning out some old boxes.  Truthfully I have been watching Hoarders and felt compelled to avoid any chance of future trashiness by going through my closet and getting a late start on some Spring cleaning. So… I found twenty-four games that I haven’t played in…

  • Countdown with Keith Olbermann: Marriage Equality is Not a Threat

    Keith Olberman is absolutely right. Watch and learn.

  • How Twitter (and the Internet) is Changing How We Consider Theatre

    Patrick Healy recently wrote in The New York Times about Julie Taymor breaking her silence on Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Broadway’s most expensive (and probably most questioned) musical in history. In his article he states that she “criticized her former producers on Saturday afternoon for relying on audience focus groups and said that the…