Michael McKean

TV Picks: 'Family Tree,' 'Nashville,' '10 Buildings,' 'The Middle'

2013-05-09 14:50:00

"Family Tree" (HBO, premieres Sunday). Christopher Guest has made you a TV series. Thank him. The director of "A Mighty Wind" and "Best in Show" and one of the forces behind and in "This Is Spinal Tap" -- in which he was Nigel Tufnel, whose amplifier went...

Review: HBO's 'Family Tree' rooted in warm, goofy eccentricity

2013-05-11 05:00:00

Christopher Guest, the director of "Best in Show" and "A Mighty Wind," has made a TV series for HBO. The eight-episode "Family Tree," which premieres Sunday, is his first work in seven years, and like his films it is sweet and funny and not a little...

McNamara's Picks: 'Scandal,' 'Family Tree,' 'Elementary'

2013-05-09 09:01:00

"Scandal": Shonda Rhimes' whacked-out buzzfest of a political drama comes to a much-fanticipated close after its first full season (it debuted as a mid-season replacement.) As super-sleuth and super-stylin' D.C. power-fixer Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington)...

Bryan Cranston to play LBJ in play by Robert Schenkkan

2013-04-22 08:00:00

Bryan Cranston is going from playing a meth dealer on AMC's "Breaking Bad" to playing President Lyndon B. Johnson in a new stage production of a work by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan. "All The Way" will open the new season at...

Michael McKean, Jefferson Mays in 'Yes, Prime Minister' at Geffen

2013-04-11 07:28:00

The death of Margaret Thatcher this week has created renewed public interest -- and, for some, nostalgia -- for British politics during the 1980s. "Yes, Prime Minister," the play based on the popular '80s sitcom that ran on the BBC, is scheduled to have...

‘Dark Knight Returns’: Animated movie inspires tears from Kevin Smith

2013-01-29 17:03:45

‘Dark Knight Returns’: Mark Valley talks Superman, ‘Human Target’

2013-01-28 07:14:01

Michael McKean makes 'break a leg' jokes after breaking leg

2012-05-24 09:52:00

The theatrical expression to "break a leg" is a frequently used backstage salute that means "good luck." For Michael McKean, the "Spinal Tap" actor who was recently appearing in the Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's "The Best Man," the idiom became literal...

Talk of latest 'Our Town' full of raves

2012-01-08 00:00:00

Wednesday’s Highlights: 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit' on NBC

2012-02-10 10:38:51

Gore Vidal's 'The Best Man': What did critics think?

2012-04-02 16:33:13

Theater review: 'Superior Donuts' at Geffen Playhouse

2011-06-09 16:33:35

Premiered: Sunday, May 12 on HBO Why we're watching: HBO's latest comedy comes with an impressive pedigree.

2013-05-13 22:19:00