With his rumpled trench coat and half-chewed cigars, not to mention his constantly breaking, decrepit car, Detective Columbo certainly looks like an underdog. But after just a few episodes it becomes ...

Murder” was the inspiration for the “Columbo” TV series pilot. The play runs at PowPAC from Jan. 23 to Feb. 22.

The ensuing cat-and-mouse game was punctuated by the classic Columbo gestures and oddball line of questioning. Dr. Flemming’s ...

There’s this beat early in every Columbo episode — that quiet pocket of time right after the killer fixes one last detail, the sort of tiny adjustment a person only makes when they’re convinced the ...