“Stranger Than Fiction” Director Marc Forster Columbia Pictures Harold Crick, the main character in “Stranger than Fiction,” is a very unremarkable man. He lives in an unremarkable home with unremarkable furniture and holds an unremarkable job. Read more...

“Family Guy” “Whistle While Your Wife Works” Nov. 12 FOX As Chris, Meg, Lois, Brian, Stewie and Peter elegantly sing and dance down the famous cabaret-style steps of the opening credits of “Family Guy,” Peter stumbles, lands on the ground, and squashes one of the backup dancers. Read more...

Move over, Marquis de Sade: Tomorrow night, meet the original poster boy for sex and alcohol. John Wilmot, the second earl of Rochester, fornicated with the same fervor as his fellow sex addict almost 100 years before the Marquis’ time. Read more...

“Audition! The Musical” Sunday, Nov. 5 Santa Monica Playhouse A review of “Audition! The Musical” at the Santa Monica Playhouse would be incomplete without mentioning the play’s setting. Read more...

Kanye’s got to be stopped. Or, more specifically, his mouth does. I’m not talking about his little “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” bit, as hilarious as that was. Read more...

The Who “Endless Wire” Republic Records For a lot of teenagers growing up in the ’60s and ’70s, the Who were the perfect distraction from an angsty adolescence. Read more...

Gloria Cheng Today, 8 p.m. Schoenberg Hall It’s easy to forget that, in his day, Beethoven was pushing the boundaries of contemporary music ““ if not tearing them apart. Read more...