Elaine May News

Mike Fotis and Lauren Anderson have been colleagues and friends for years. Both have deep ties to the Brave New Workshop through longstanding onstage revues and as graduates of the associated Student Union program.

"Motorcycle," this week's installment of Portlandia , included the sharpest sketch of the season, so far.

One of Walter Matthau's best movies, the 1971 comedy A New Leaf , isn't on DVD but it will be screening Thursday, January 26 at LACMA.

In "George is Dead," the short play Elaine May contributed to "Relatively Speaking," the new triptych of one-acts that opened Thursday night at the Brooks Atkinson Theater, Marlo Thomas plays a sheltered, wealthy woman with a mansion in Southampton and a staff that does everything, including ask her to make too many decisions about what to do with ... (more)