Monday, December 10, 2018
Members of the original off-Brodway cast of Godspell sings “Day by Day,” by Stephen Schwartz, on The Mike Douglas Show. This episode originally aired on April 29, 1973: (This is the late…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“One wonders whether a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs and instant solution of the world’s problems will produce anything of lasting value. Such a generatio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, December 7, 2018
In today’s Wall Street Journal I review the Broadway openings of Network and The Cher Show. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Broadway is a business—and a bad one. Not only does it cost a horri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMThursday, May 31, 2018
Hartford Stage didn't exactly need to be put on the map but in his seven year run Artistic Director DARKO TRESNJAK has made them one of New England's most admired theatre companies!
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal at 04:15PMThursday, December 29, 2016
Today’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column is about Daniel Barenboim’s new YouTube channel. Here’s an excerpt. * * * At 74, Daniel Barenboim is very much in the news. Among oth…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AMIn addition to writing about theater and the other arts for a living, I also blog in this space purely for my pleasure. Here are ten of my favorite posts from the year almost past: • Febru…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM“Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.” Bertrand Russell, “Rec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, December 28, 2016
Arturo Toscanini leads the NBC Symphony in a performance of Rossini’s William Tell Overture, originally telecast from Carnegie Hall on March 15, 1952: (This is the latest in a series of ar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“One of the most disconcerting, unpleasant, and sordid aspects of life is the awareness that nearly all of us find an evil deed more exciting than a good one.” Josep Pla, The Gray Notebo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, December 27, 2016
If my family had any dark secrets, they went to the grave with my parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles. But like all families, we did have a few subjects of which we preferred not to spe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:10AMFrom 2006: The phrase “guilty pleasure,” of course, is itself inherently problematic, because it implies that we ought to be hypocrites when it comes to our artistic responses. Kingsley …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:05AM“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, December 26, 2016
My brother, like me, is deeply attached to the increasingly distant past that we share. That’s one of the reasons why he and my sister-in-law live in the house where the two of us grew up,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMA scene from the 1940 film version of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, adapted by Wilder, Frank Craven, and Harry Chandlee from Wilder’s play and directed for the screen by Sam Wood. The scor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“I like filmed theatre; I think there is a charge and a glamour about filmed plays and revues and vaudeville and music hall that one rarely gets from adaptations of novels or from those fe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, December 23, 2016
A scene from “The Night of the Meek,” an episode of The Twilight Zone originally telecast by CBS on December 23, 1960. The cast includes Art Carney and John Fiedler and the teleplay is b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.” Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, December 22, 2016
“Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.” Aldous Huxley, Grey Eminence
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, December 21, 2016
Rachel Harnisch, Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic perform “Laudate Dominum,” a setting of Psalm 117 from Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339, performed in 1999 a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?” J. M. Barrie, The Little White Bird
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, December 20, 2016
From 2006: Why, then, did I never get around to putting up a tree of my own after I left home? The answer, I suppose, is that since I made a point of coming back to Smalltown, U.S.A., for th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, December 19, 2016
A scene from Miracle on 34th Street, written and directed by George Seaton, featuring Edmund Gwenn and Philip Tonge. The film was released in 1947: (This is the latest in a series of arts-re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:15AM“A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.” Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort, Maxims and Considerations
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:00AMFriday, December 16, 2016
Lee J. Cobb stars in a TV version of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, directed by Alex Segal and originally telecast by CBS on May 8, 1966. Cobb created the role of Willy Loman in the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.” Enid Bagnold, Autobiography
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, December 15, 2016
In today’s online Wall Street Journal I review the New York Theatre Workshop’s new production of Othello. Here’s an excerpt. * * * “Othello” doesn’t get done nearly often enough.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:30PMIn the online edition of today’s Wall Street Journal, I review In Transit, the last new Broadway musical of 2016. Here’s an excerpt. * * * To transfer a modest little off-Broadway musica…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:00PMToday’s Wall Street Journal contains my annual best-of-the-year theater column: Lots of excellent revivals, several impressive new plays, two terrific new musicals—most of them produced …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM“Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery!” Enid Bagnold, Diary without Dates
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, December 14, 2016
Jimmy Rushing sings, plays piano, and talks about his career on an episode of Jazz Casual, originally telecast by KQED-TV on October 26, 1962. The host is Ralph J. Gleason: (This is the late…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM 
