Herstory Exam

Kitchen Theatre honcho Rachel Lampert mines autobiographical amusement with And, Lately. . .

It’s hard to tell where the curtain speech (comments about exit doors, cells phones and so on) ends and the action begins in And, Lately. . . . Actor-playwright Rachel Lampert, who is the producing artistic director at Ithaca’s Kitchen Theatre Company, asks for a show of hands, “There isn’t anybody here who doesn’t know me, is there?” One timid hand goes up. With a shrug of the shoulders, she then advises, “You will.”

Artists and Model

A gorgeous muse bridges the artistic generation gap in Renoir

Putting the “art” in “art-house flick,” the lush biopic Renoir (Samuel Goldwyn; 112 minutes; R; 2013) not only examines the twilight years of the Impressionist painter (1841-1919) but also the young female model who became his final artistic muse, as well as Renoir’s three sons, who embarked on their separate creative paths.

News & Blues

Dogs would be required to wear life jackets at pool-equipped daycare and boarding facilities in Colorado, according to rules drafted by the Pet Animal Care Facilities Program, a division of the Colorado Department of Agriculture. “Not every dog is a good swimmer,” program manager Kate Anderson explained.

Office Romance Comes to an End

The sitcom might have been set in Scranton, Pa., but it had familiar Central New York grace notes

May, in the digital calendar of the TV world, is the month of goodbyes. Failed shows fly. Series that have sailed their course sink—or sail into the Scranton sunset.