Lt. Columbo, of rum pled trench coat, cigar and absent-minded-detective-work fame, is coming to Broadway. “Columbo Takes the Rap,” a new mystery by William Link, who, with his writing partner, Richard ...

What the commentaries about Columbo I have read today miss, and what explains a large measure of its international appeal, is that Columbo is the ultimate show about working class resentment of and ...

R.I. P. Peter Falk, a man who was every bit as unusual and talented as his on-screen alter ego, Lt. Columbo. I learned this first-hand one day in January 2003 when I did a phone interview with Falk in ...

Richard Hunsaker has played many iconic characters on stage during his 78 years, but donning police detective Lt. Columbo’s trademark rumpled Mackintosh raincoat has been a particularly memorable ...

Columbo broke with tradition, showing the crime first, then expecting us to watch for another hour to see the detective's thought processes as he psyched out the criminals. Columbo showed an ...