The idea behind "Laughter at Ten o'Clock: Memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show,' " which opened last weekend at American Century Theater, is pretty wonderful: Salute the antic humor of one of the ...

Unfortunately, there wasn't -- not for Burnett's style of comedy-variety TV. It was out of vogue even during her heyday. For more than a decade beginning in 1967, she and a richly talented ...

Tickets for Sketchily Ever After are $15 and available through the box office of the Long Beach Playhouse (562-494-1014, option 1) or at lbplayhouse.org.

The Great Northern Railway's route over Stevens Pass, as Krist writes, turned out to be "an engineering challenge of mind-boggling complexity, requiring sharp curves, brutal grades, elaborate ...